252 Remarks on the environs of Carthage Bridge. 
ing to take advantage of a part of its water ;—as has been 
done at the five minor falls which pour over the adjacent 
West bank, at some distance from each other. They are 
the outlets of channels which the level of the country, now 
low and swampy, has permitted to form. 
The town of Rochester is half a mile higher up the river, 
a good road, through the woods and fields leading to it. In 
June, 1819, this Settlement was four years old, and then con- 
tained b 
The inns are excellent; and the stores frequently with their 
gables to the street, are shewy and well stocked. The town 
possesses a printing office and newspaper. The streets are 
scarce cleared of the tree-stumps ; but they are lively an 
merce and manufactures are carried on with the 
facilities and steadiness of a Hanse town, whose organiza- 
tion poses the experience of a thousand years. 
all the town is on the West side of the river, but 
many roid houses are on the other, and comraunicate by a 
common wooden bridge of three abutments. Looking up- 
wards from this bridge, you have rapids passing noisily over 
two ledges of rock which at the distance of fifty and a hun- 
dred yards cross the widened river. The left shore isa slo- 
ping meadow : the right is low, and intersected by numer- 
ous streamlets, each of which has its petty cascade, and its 
mill he mi: wood, and Bours: Woods are close at hand in 
The: view downwards is ‘soinatiins: sduatiiee. The West 
side’ is more covered with houses and opulent. establish- 
ments, which, indeed, stretch a mile or more. 
The stratification of the banks of the Genesee river, can 
be best observed about Carthage bridge. Here they are 
perpendicular, and dilate so as to give the horse-shoe form 
to. the chasm included between the bridge and first fall— 
es at the same time under the former. Large mas- 
of debris occupy the foot of these walls. The West 
side of the precipice above the bridge is imperfect ; a nat- 
row grassy ledge having formed at midheight, su eceeded by 
a steep slope, which is loaded with trees. The higher por- 
cae im general, are often much comminuted and ie 
ea 
“The rocks on bolts sides se: the: river at this is point soak at 
diffe erent parts of the side, corr in kind and 
situation. 
