14 Geology, Se. of the Connecticut. 
and I have ventured to denominate them Turner’s Falls, for 
crossing the rock strata nearly at right angles; and an arti- 
ficial dam is raised upon these rocks of the coal formation, 
so that the whole stream, which is here more than one 
thidiisatia feet wide, falls thirty feet perpendiclaly. This 
sheet of water, however, is divided near the middle by a 
small island on which the dam | pep. For three mileé 
below the principal soa aa the water continues to descend 
so as to render a canal necessary. 
The proper and almost the only spot for viewing this 
cataract to advantage is on the elevated ground forty or ~d 
rods below the oo on the northeast shore.* Standin 
this spot, you e the principal fall of water early" in 
igs or at right alas with the line of sight ; and you can 
see the river above and below the dam one or two miles. 
The contrast, is, however, very great. Above the cataract 
water is unruffled to the very verge of the precipice, dow 
which itrollsin Yeas majesty. Below, ittumbles and foaiin’ 
al r the rocks as far as the eye can trace it. A little far- 
ther down the srbih than the station of the observer, the 
river strikes directly ; against a greenstone ridge,t two hun- 
dred feet high, by which it is forced to curve to the left, 
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addition to the scenery, Several rods below this island a- 
nother is planted of similar aspect, but smaller, and at a 
much lower level, and apparently inaccessible, ane A 34 
island may be reache by a canoe in safety 5 then we 
can descend to iH very foot of the falls and ‘end Die voice 
drowned by their roar; and in favourable circumstances, 
see the rainbow arching over the falling sheet. 
= Ad this spot a view of these falls re mar in 1818, by a pte se and 
the Port Folio for December of that year, with a short descrip- 
The dam era 
; and the removal of the dam. ae has rather inj ured the view. 
Ask , * At the foot of this ridge, in the bottom the stream, and adbe wos hel 
rocks, g' 
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