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jnous and wreck -like appearances of nature. It un- 

 luckily happened when we were there, the quantity 

 of water was smail, but from the size of the logs 

 drifted down, and left by the subsiding freshets 

 among the rocks of the channel, there was no diffi- 

 culty in imagining how great and impetuous the flow 

 must sometimes be, that could float such pieces of 

 timber along, and split them to shivers in their fall. 

 From the edge of the bank, a little way off, vv'here 

 several large trees alFord a firm hold, securing the 

 spectator from slipping, a tolerable view can be ob- 

 tained. There is something in it exceedingly pictu- 

 resque, which, under the pencil of an artist, wo«ld 

 afford a sketch possessing much novelty and pecuii- 

 arity. 



Another cataract, called MichdVs Falls^ is on 

 the Kader's Kill itself. Exactly at the precipice 

 the mountain seems to have been rent asunder, and, 

 receding to the right and leftj leaves between its 

 enormous and craggy piles, a deep and dreadful 

 opening. This takes a turn towards the left, and 

 v/inding along in that direction, the view is soon in- 

 tercepted. From a point of elevated rock, a little 

 to the left of the falls, the whole bend is full in pros- 

 pect, extending like a vast amphitheatre from its " 

 commencement, just on the right hand, to its ter- 

 mination, by the intervening objects at the other ex- 

 treme.^ A border of hemlocks {Fiiius Abies Caiiad,) 

 and pines adorns the brow of the rocks ; a like co- 

 vering, mixed with laurels {kalmia majoi^) and white 

 cedars {thuya occidentalis) down the steep, impart 

 to them perennial greenness; and the whole dis- 

 tance thence to the bottom of the chasm, is skirted 



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