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ifiirig this seemingly interesting part of country; 

 &beirig informed of a very handsome cascade calld 

 •the falling spring, on the mountain on the other 

 *ide of the Lawahannok, I in company of the 

 landlord, set out for that place, this man was 

 led to go with me, in hopes of finding out the 

 place, where by tradition of this place, a 

 silver mine has been worked on the brook which 

 forms this remarkable cascade. We went through 

 very fertile fields & meadows ; Strawberries were 

 found ripe here; Pentstemon pubescens— Erigeron 

 bellidifolium— &c. The shores of the Lawa- 

 hanok were covered with Viburnum — Cornus — 

 Silver Mapple— & a few Oaks mixdhere & there 

 with Ash. — The Elder is in these parts more 

 plenty full, than near to the Sea Shores. About 

 a mile & a half on the other side of the Lawa- 

 hannok, we came to the gap, where the Susque- 

 hannah comes through, — & soon after to the cove 

 in which this remarkable spring comes down ; the 

 sides of the mountain is here very steep & comes 

 close to the bank of the river ; in a small recess 

 or cove, this small brook falls over a nearly per- 

 pendicular rock of from 80 to 100 feet high down; 

 it forms one of the most picturesque & lovely 

 cascades I ever beheld : the place is surrounded 

 with shady trees & the rocks covered with ferns 

 & moss of different kinds—The Xephrodium bulbi- 

 ferum & marginale are the principal Ferns ; 

 Stellaria graminea grows among the moss, with 

 Mitella diphylla &C.--I observed a Orchis, growing 

 in the crevices of the rock, not in flower, but sup- 

 posed to be O. fimbriata. — Acer pensylv.inica, 

 under the falls in flower. — We climed round the 



