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the passage of the Windsor river through the moun- 

 tains, to the distance of between four and five miles, 

 it runs over almost one continued bed of rocks ; and 

 during a time of freshet or high water, the current flows 

 with the rapidity of a sluice. From thence to the Con- 

 necticut river, it flows through a district of alluvial 

 formation. 



From the foot of the falls (so called) to the distance 

 of two miles below, the bed of the river is, in many 

 places, covered with water worn pebbles, which have 

 been, in the course of time, hurled down its stream 

 thus far only. 



From thence to its discharge into the Connecticut 

 river, about two miles, scarcely a pebble is to be found, 

 big or little, neither on its bed, in its banks, nor at, 

 or below its mouth : and what is still more worthy of 

 remark is, that from some distance above the foot of 

 the falls, to where the pebbles cease to cover the bed 

 of the river, the hills on the south west side of the ri- 

 ver (its course being south east) are, in many places, 

 filled with water worn pebbles ; while on the northeast 

 side from its passage through the mountains to its con- 

 fluence with the Connecticut river, scarcely any peb- 

 bles are to be seen ; a circumstance that cannot fail to 

 excite the attention of an observer. 



Such, in part, are the results of my own observations 

 on the subject of rolled, or water worn pebbles. 



Let us now, for a moment, inquire into the probable 

 cause of so powerful, and so general a current ; and 

 since nothing short of, at least, a partial deluge, 



