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June 1749, 



into the rivtvHudfon. This fall is about three 

 Engliflj miles from the place where I parTed 

 the night. The country till the fall is a 

 plain, and only hilly about the fall itfelf. 

 The wood is cleared in mod: places, and the 

 ground cultivated, and interfperfed with 

 farm-houfes. 



The Cohoes Fall is one of the greatefr. in 

 North America* It is in the river Mohawk, 

 before it unites with the river Hudfon. 

 Above and below the fall, the fides and the 

 bottom of the river confift of hard rock. 

 The river is three hundred yards broad here. 

 At the fall there is a rock crofsways in the 

 river, running every where equally high, 

 and crofling in a ftrait line with the fide 

 which forms the fall. It reprefents, as it 

 were, a wall towards the lower fide, which 

 is not quite perpendicular, wanting about 

 four yards. The height of this wall, over 

 which the water rolls, appeared to me about 

 twenty or twenty-four yards. I had marked 

 this height in my pocket-book ; and after- 

 wards found it; agreed pretty well with the 

 account which that ingenious engineer, Mr. 

 Lewis Evans, communicated to me at Phi- 

 ladelphia. He faid, that he had geometri- 

 cally meafured the breadth and height of the 

 fall, and found it nine hundred Englifh feet 



2 broad, 



