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

 fentation of this fall, which is here joined, 

 has been made by Mr. Evans. There was 

 very little water in the river at prefent, and 

 it only ran over the fall in a few places. 

 In fuch places where the water had rolled 

 down before, it had cut deep holes below 

 into the rock, fometimes to the depth of 

 two or three fathoms. The bed of the 

 river, below the fall, 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 pafled which came over the fall. 

 We faw a number of holes in the rock, b^- 

 low the fall, which bore a perfect refem- 

 blance to thofe in Sweden which we call 

 Giants Pots, or Mountain Kettles. They 

 differed in fi'ze -, 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 alk 

 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 corning within a mufket-fhot 

 of the fall, againft the wind, our cloaths were 

 S 3 wettecl 



