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agara, we could pass behind the falling sheet. Beneath these pro- 
jecting rocks, ice remains unmelted until the beginning of June: 
there was a considerable quantity lying there to-day. About mid- 
way of the falls, an immense block of the conglomerate rock, from 
thirty to forty feet in height, and more than that in diameter, being 
of a cubic form, lies in the middle of the stream, the water passing 
on each side of it: several large hemlock trees crown its hoary head; 
the roots piercing the crevices of the rock, find moisture and a steady 
support. The tops and sides of the cliffs are lined with fine large 
trees of the hemlock (Abies Canadensis) and white pine, (Pinus 
Strobus,) adding tenfold life and beauty to this romantic spot. I 
look forward with regret to the period, when these ancient and 
beautiful trees must fall before the increase of manufacturing build- 
ings, which will soon supply their place. Almost my last words to 
the proprietors and influential inhabitants were, ‘Spare, oh spare 
these noble evergreens, so charmingly appropriate to the spot, and 
standing on the brink and sides of these romantic cliffs, where the 
hand of man can never replace them.” At several points along the 
falls, the view up stream is grand and imposing. The immense. 
cliffs of perpendicular rocks, crowned with the towering hemlock, 
whose tall shaft in many places hangs gracefully over the gulf be- 
low, as if listening to the voice of the waters, which, confined to 
their narrow bed by the rocky walls of the stream, come foaming 
through with headlong fury. In some places there is a descent of 
eight or ten feet at a single bound ; at others, it rashes down an in- 
clined plane. ‘The greatest pitch is twenty two feet in a distance of 
ten feet, but accomplished at two leaps. This long succession of 
falls and rapids will ultimately become of incalculable benefit to the 
manufacturer, and a cordon of mills and machinery may be continued 
without interruption, touching each other like the houses in a crowd- 
ed street, for the distance of two miles on each side of the stream; 
the same water being used successively at the different dams, and ta- 
ken along the sides of the river in plank raceways or penstocks. 
From its proximity to two canals, leading to the two greatest cities 
in the Union, this spot is destined to become in a few years a place 
of great commercial importance and immense manufacturing busi- 
ness. The town now contains eight hundred inhabitants, and it is 
supposed by good judges that two hundred buildings will go up the 
present year. The manufactures now in operation are, a paper mill, 
oil mill, flour mills, saw mills, sash manufactories, smitheries, &c, &c. 
