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Stillwater. — This place, whose name awakens memories of 

 the revolutionary war, has a dam made of logs, with an eight 

 foot perpendicular face, and it is three miles above Mechanic- 

 ville, and fifteen miles below the Fort Miller dam. Although 

 the dam is eight feet high on the west side of the river, it is 

 not a foot high on the east side, and, before the dam at Me- 

 chanicville was built, suckers and river herring (alewives) 

 went over it in the spring. No fishway is needed here, be- 

 cause in ordinary seasons while fish are running they can 

 pass this dam. Surely a salmon will have no trouble with an 

 obstruction which a sucker can pass. A fishway at Mechanic- 

 ville would give the salmon a clear run from Troy to the next 

 dam, a distance of 27 miles. 



Thompson's Mill (P. O.) — At this place is the Saratoga 

 State dam, two miles below the Fort Miller dam, and it is of 

 stone, 824 feet long, 9},' feet high, with an apron of ten feet. 

 There are no falls here, only swift water, "rifts" below. In 

 stages of high water there is moderately deep water below, 

 which would serve as a resting place for salmon. 



Fort Miller. — The dam here is a wing-dam, ten feet high 

 at one end, but only eighteen inches at the other. It is of 

 wood, with a square face, and would not obstruct the passage 

 of salmon. It is two miles above Thompson's Mill, 



Fort Edward. — There is an old wooden dam here, made of 

 log cribs, which will soon require to be rebuilt as it is much 

 decayed. The dam is sixteen feet high. There are good pools 

 just below it which have fourteen feet of water in them at low 

 water. There is a spill-way in the dam through which all the 

 water goes when the river is low. This is for the passage of 

 logs in the summer. Below the dam is a great bed of saw- 

 dust, on the east bank. 



Baker's Falls and Dam. — These falls are at Sandy Hill, a 

 few miles below Glens Falls. It is said that before there were 

 any dams on the river the shad came up as far as this, but 

 could go no further. I heard this tradition from several per- 

 sons, but can not say more. The falls are slate rock, and fall 



