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two men went over the falls. One was killed, and the other 

 was so badly injured that he has never fully recovered. If 

 the salmon planted above this fall go down safely they can go 

 the rest of the way without injury. I confess to being doubt- 

 ful about it, and begin to think that possibly Clendon brook 

 may have supplied a good share of the fish that have grown 

 to maturity, for this fall surprised me with its violent rush 

 through a narrow pass and its lack of a deep pool to receive 

 the falling waters. I do not see how a living thing could 

 escape being battered to death on the many exposed rocks, 

 and especially at the foot of the dam, where is a sheer fall of 

 25 feet and a shallow pool. 



Rockwell's Falls. — These are at Luzerne, or Hadley. The 

 village is on both sides of the river, in different counties, 

 and has two names. This is the last obstruction on the river. 

 The dam is 15 feet high on the west bank, and runs to noth- 

 ing on the east bank. A salmon could go over it with ease, 

 if it could get here. The Sacandaga River enters the Hudson 

 about 200 yards below these falls. 



Conclusion. 



While I have expressed surprise that anything could live 

 after passing Palmer Falls, I do not wish to be understood as 

 saying that it is impossible for it to do so. The varying cur- 

 rent, which would dash a man to pieces on the rocks, may be 

 safely run by a salmon going down tail first and keeping 

 steerage way all the time by a vigorous up-stream motion, 

 but if one simply looks at these formidable falls with the idea 

 that a salmon would go down them as he or any other mam- 

 mal would, he would shudder at the thought. The fact that 

 all fishes go down stream in rapid water tail first, when not 

 hooked or frightened, must save them many a contusion 

 which a cow would get. I have seen a trout go over a small 

 dam, when, of course, it did not know what might be below, 

 and it would back down until its fear would cause it to resist 

 the rapid current, and so would feel of it, always heading up 



