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fifty-eight and a half feet in about 500 to 600 feet, the ex- 

 act height being obtained from Allen Bros., paper manu- 

 facturers. The pool below, where the shad formerly stopped, 

 is said to be seventy feet deep. Half-way up the falls is 

 a pool about 125 by 75 feet," and apparently fifteen feet 

 deep. The dam on the top of the fall varies from three to 

 eight feet in height. 



Sandy Hill Dam. — This dam is about a half-mile above 

 the former and is of logs, eleven feet six inches high, with 

 a spill-way in the middle, from which an incline runs down 

 to low water, for the purpose of running logs. 



Glens Falls and Dam. — The falls are hard, stratified rock, 

 and at low water the descent from the crest of the dam is 

 forty feet, in a distance of 150 feet. There are several 

 steps and pools, in some of them the vertical distance is 

 not over thirty feet. In the center it is higher, and con- 

 sequently the great body of water is divided to flow on 

 either side. I saw it on August 23d, and the river was 

 then exeptionally low. It looked, at that time, to be prac- 

 ticable to make a passage for fish, part of the way in the rock. 



State Dam (at Feeder Dam). — This is one and three- 

 quarter miles above Glens Falls. It feeds the Champlain 

 canal and runs two saw-mills. Its height is thirteen feet 

 and eleven inches, and is built of wood with an eighteen 

 feet apron. Water goes over this dam until Jul)'', when 

 the brackets are put on and the water is all used by the 

 canal and the mills. From this dam to Clendon brook, 

 above, is five miles by river. 



Palmer's Falls and Dam. — These are at Jessup's Landing. 

 The dam on the crest is 25 feet high, then rapids for a dis 

 tance of 100 feet, more or less, and a sloping fall of-about 50 

 or 60 feet. It is 85 feet from the pool below to the foot of 

 the dam. In dry times the enormous paper mill takes all the 

 water in the river, but when I saw this fall, Nov. 2 2d, it was 

 a terrible place to think of going over, either for a salmon or 

 a man. While building the dam in this wild mountain gorge, 



