METEORIC RIVERS OR WATERFALLS. 



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near to the one next it to the east, as had been the case on 

 the first examined ridge. The quantity of water which 

 fell in these ten columns was probably as great as fell in 

 the twenty-three columns first examined. The ridge is 

 about the same length, but much higher and steeper, and 

 the descending columns of water were more than double 

 the distance apart, and something higher up on the side of 

 the ridge, and more irregular in their distance apart ; and 

 several seemed to have their east and west diameter longer 

 than their north and south, while those of the first ridge 

 were nearly all round. On neither ridge was there any 

 drain above leading into the basins, nor any in between 

 them, and the basins on both ridges were almost in a 

 straight line with one another. And in all cases the basins 

 were much deeper than the gullies formed by the water run- 

 ning from them. Indeed, these gullies were seldom deep 

 enough to cut out the trees, but in all cases the trees were 

 entirely removed from the basins. 



On the south side of Chimney Ridge, nearly opposite, 

 near the base, there is a small basin in a field where 

 the side of the ridge is not too steep to be cultivated, and 

 about two thirds of a mile from this last, near the top of 

 the ridge, there is one of twenty feet diameter, and six feet 

 deep, on a very moderate slope, perhaps about twenty de- 

 grees elevation from the horizon. This basin is round, with 

 the exception of a small cut on the north eastern side, thus : 



A, the basin ; B, a hole of nearly equal depth ; C, the earth washed out from below. 



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