252 Remarks on the environs of Carthage Bridge. 
ing to take advantage of a part of its water ;—as has beex 
done at the five minor falls which pour over the adjacent 
West bank, at some distance from each other. ‘They are 
the outlets of channels which the level of the country, now | 
low and swampy, has permitted to form. 
The town of Rochester is half a mile higher up the river, 
a good road, through the woods and fields leading to it. In 
dupe. 1819, this settlement was four years old, and then con- 
tained about three hundred houses incom pact, regular streets. 
The inns are excellent; and the stores frequently with their 
gables to the street, are shewy and well stocked. The town 
possesses a printing office and newspaper. ‘The streets are 
scarce Cleared of the tree-stumps ; but they are lively and 
busy : commerce and manufactures are carried on with the 
facilities and steadiness of a Hanse town, whose organiza- 
tion possesses the experience of a thousand years. 
Almost all the town is on the West side of the river, but 
many good houses are on the other, and cominunicate by a 
common wooden bridge of three abutments. Looking up- 
wards from this bridge, you have rapids passing noisily over 
two ledges of rock which at the distance of fifty and a hun- 
dred yards cross the widened river. The left shore isa slo- 
ping meadow : the right is low, and intersected by numer- 
ous streamlets, each of which has its petty cascade, and its 
mill for oil, wood, and flour. Woods are close at hand in 
the rear. 
The view downwards is something similar. The West 
side is more covered with houses and opulent establish- 
ments, which, indeed, stretch a mile or mere. 
The stratification of the banks of the Genesee river, can 
be best observed about Carthage bridge. Here they are 
perpendicular, and dilate so as to give the horse-shoe form 
to the chasm included between the bridge and first fall— 
narrowing at the same time under the former. Large mas- 
ses of debris occupy the foot of these walls. The West 
side of the precipice above the bridge is imperfect ; a nar- 
row grassy ledge having formed at midheight, succeeded by 
a steep slope, which is loaded with trees. The higher por- 
tions 7m general, are often much comminuted and very 
earthy. 
The rocks on both sides of the river, at this point, and at 
different parts of the same side, correspond -m kind and 
situation. 
