Between Albany and Saratoga, 277 



broad, and feventy-five feet high. The repre- 

 fentation of this fall, which is here joined, 

 lias been made by Mr. Evans. There was 

 very little water in the river at present, and 

 it only ran over the fall in a few places. 

 In ftich places where the water had rolled 

 down before, it had cut d^ep holes below 

 into the rock, fometimes to the depth of 

 two or three fathoms. The bed of the 

 river, below the fell, was of rock, and 

 quite dry, there being only a channel in 

 the middle fourteen feet broad, and a fathom 

 or fomewhat more deep, through which the 

 water paffed which came ever the fall. 

 We faw a number of holes in the rock, be- 

 low the fall, which bore a perfect re fern - 

 blance to thofe in Sweden which we call 

 Giants Pots, or Mountain Kettles. They 

 differed in fizc ; there being large deep 

 ones, and fmall {hallow ones. We had 

 clear uninterrupted fun-mine, not a cloud 

 above the horizon, and no wind at all. 

 However, clofe to this fall, where the water 

 was in fuch a fmall quantity, there was a 

 continual drizzling rain, occafioned by the 

 vapours which rofe from the water during 

 its fall, and were carried about by the wind. 

 Therefore, in coming within a muiket-fhot 

 of the fall, againft the wind, our cloaths were 



S 3 wetted 



