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In the cdunty of Rowan, near Salisbui'y, "Nortk 

 Carolina, 200 miles from the sea, and 70 from the 

 HQOuntains, are two basaltic walls; one is 20 inche^ 

 thick, 300 feet long, and 12 or 14 feet high; the 

 topis about one foot^ below the surface, and fiats 

 another is 40 feet loBg, four or five high, and sevea 

 inches thick. 



" The 7^en?iesse€^ called by the French Cherokee^ 

 and absurdly by others, the Hogohege river, is th^T 

 largest branch of the Ohio ; it is 600 yards wide at 

 its mouth. 



" The IV/iirl, as it is called, of the Tennessee, h 

 in about latitude 35 deg. It is reckoned a greater 

 curiosity than the bursting of the Patowmac, through 

 the Blue Ridge. The river, which a few miles above 

 is half a mile wide, is here compressed to the width 

 of about 70 yards. Just as it enters the mountain, a 

 large rock projects from the north shore, in an oblique 

 direction, which renders the bed of the river stili 

 narrower, and causes a sudden bend; the water of 

 the river is of course thrown with great rapidity 

 against the south shore, whence it rebounds around 

 the point of the rock, and produces the whirl, which 

 is about 80 yards in circumference. Boats pass the 

 v^hirl without danger or difficulty. Such is the si- 

 tuation of the shore, that boats ascending the river 

 may be towed up. In less than a mile below the 

 whirl, the river spreads into its common width, and 

 except the muscle shoals, fiows beautiful and placid, 

 till it mingles with the Ohio." * 



jYarro%vs of Connecticut i^fi/er.... There are five 

 fallsj and except at the first, which is about gixty 



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