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the channel below. The falls are on the high road be- we 
tween Albany and Lake George ; a bridge crosses the 
Huilson river just below the cataract, and perhaps 
the finest single view of the whole scenery is afforded, 
at this place. The river here makes a sudden descent ~ 
of about thirty-seven feet; the sheet of water, how- 
ever, is divided by projecting masses of rock into two 
or more currents according to the depth of the water 
at different seasons of the year. The banks of the 
river are nearly perpendicular, the rushing of the wa- 
rock S» 
of the 
strata, to a considerable depth. There are many cu- 
ter having worn itself a passage through the 
and thus laying open to the geologist a view 
rious excavations or cavities worked out of the solid 
rock by the attrition of loase stones, set in motion by 
the rapid current ; some of these are like a deep pot, 
and the stones by which the water wears them out, 
are often found at the bottom. Crossing over the 
flat rock which supports the bridge and turning to the 
left, the mouths of two caverns are found facing the 
north. ‘They have been cut through by the rushing 
of the water in a direlann across the river °s coultse.. 
The first is just large enough to permit the passage | 
of a man, and is cut with aula regularity for a | 
distance of about twenty-five feet; it conducts toone 
of the river’s channels, where it nae on the brink of 
a precipice directly over the river.??* This place is 
said to have been connected with some romantic 
festern Traveller, p. 130. 
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