THE 



AMERICAN 



JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, &c. 



Art. I. — Illustrations of a View taken from the Upper Falls of the 

 Genessee River ; in a letter to the Editor, from Daniel Wads- 

 WOP.TH, Esq. 



TO PROFESSOR SILLIMAJV. 



My Dear Sir- — The view I send you, is taken from the vicinity of 

 the upper Falls of the Genessee River, a quarter of a mile below the 

 last cascade, — twenty-three miles above Moscow, and about sixty 

 south of Lake Ontario. The river, in its windings, traverses a much 

 greater distance, before it reaches the lake. The rock which, in 

 the drawing, is facing the spectator, rises probably to the height 

 of four hundred and fifty feet.* The scenery in this neighborhood 

 is very little known, — but when all the points worth visiting, both 

 at the top and foot of the rocks, are rendered more accessible, 

 and there are good accommodations for lodging, it must become a 

 place of great resort ; and not improbably this may have taken 

 place, sincef my visit to the spot, so rapidly does every thing ad- 

 vance in this country. 



There are three distinct falls, included in a distance of three miles. 

 They differ as much as possible from each other ; having their own 

 peculiar beauties, and each a different and laborious approach ; they 

 are respectively sixty, ninety, and one hundred and ten feet high. 

 To see them all, is now, no light undertaking, but will soon, I think, 

 be rendered a very easy one. 



The cascades themselves, would, any where else, be objects of 

 great admiration, and are fully deserving of a particular, and sepa- 

 rate description. But they are almost forgotten, in the feelings of 



* As we were gazing, in some trepidation, from the brink of the less elevated, but 

 nearer precipice on the left, a hardy young man of the party, exclaimed with an al^ 

 most inarticulate voice, " I wonder these trees are not afraid to grow here." 



t Now two and a half years. 



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