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to great advantage, the saw-mills, grist-mills and 

 forges, which are moved by portions of the water 

 led' off from the main channel of the river to its two 

 sides, and by their well adapted machinery are per- 

 forming daily a great amount of work, in wood, 

 grain and iron. 



The highest fall made by one of the four currents 

 has a great resemblance to that of the Passaick. The 

 water pitches obliquely into a terrible chasm ; after 

 rushing violently through the narrow channels, it 

 soon grows calm in the great and deep bason which 

 receives it. 



A few miles below Glen^s Falls^ in the Hudson^ 

 about half a mile from the ordinary travelling road, 

 may be seen a cataract, having considerable resem- 

 blance to the upper fall of the Potowmac, fourteen 

 miles above Georgetown in Maryland. This is pic- 

 turesque and grand, but in a style remarkably differ- 

 ent from the preceding ; though, like it, the scene is 

 eminently deserving to be beheld by persons of curi- 

 osity and taste. 



A branch of Kadir's Kill^ New York, after 

 a pretty rapid descent along its bed, first pitches 

 more than two fathoms, and then running a few 

 rods further, falls in a most beautiful sheet down a 

 steep, which measured a little distance off one hun- 

 dred and fifteen feet. At no great distance below, 

 the water again falls more than one hundred feet, 

 and continues descending with such violence and ra^ 

 pidity along its channel, that the whole descent, has 

 been estimated within one quarter of a mile, to be 

 four hundred feet. The going down and coming up 

 the rocks which form the sides of the valley are so 



