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‘ scenes, sai with som sanguinary isictdentest in the 
history of the American Indian. ‘I visited this in- 
teresting spot repeatedly, several years since, when 
the surrounding scenery exhibited most of its pic- 
© turesque and original wildness, and so deep an im- 
pression has this remarkable cataract left upon my 
mind, that I have now an ideal presence of its white 
foam dashing against the rocks, and its rising spray 
tinted with the colours of the rainbow. . 
The rocks which are finely exposed at Glenn’s — 
Falls, are composed, for the most part, of transition © 
‘anesthe, of a dark blue or black colour. The 
layers: ars nearly horizontal, are of different thick- 
nesses, and occur both compact and shelly. The ex- 
tensive range of this rock through the United States 
is well entertained. In the present instance it com- 
mences near the head of Lake Champlain, runs in a 
south-west direction, and crosses the Hudson river at 
the Falls. It may be noticed also on the Mohawk 
above Schenectady, and again along the erwin. 
mountain. Many persons have imagined that 
waters of the Hudson river ‘once encountered an im- 
‘ assable barrier in their northern course at the High- 
Jand mountains, in the vicinity of West Point, and 
_ therefore that they once flowed into the ocean through 
the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Among; number of local 
peculiarities which might be mentioned in support of 
thisliinion, is the curious fact that ‘the water which 
. passes off from one side of these Cen the little 
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