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with similar trees and shrubs. Whether you look 

 down, or round, the prospect, though not extensive, 

 is sublime and awful. The water first falls one hun- 

 dred and sixty-two feet perpendicular, into a large 

 bason or excavation, in the rock below, of about forty 

 yards in diameter; then issuing from this pool, it 

 suffers a second fall of eighty feet more, making in 

 the whole, a descent of two hundred and forty- two 

 feet. To look down from the projecting layer of 

 stone which forms the brink, is too dangerous for 

 the most steady head. 



Upon the whole, however, it may be observed, 

 that though the quantity of water is less, these falls 

 are more worth a sight than those of Passaick, the 

 Cohoes, or the upper ones of the Mohawk.* 



The Cohoes in the Mohawk river also deserves no- 

 tice among the cataracts of the American rivers. 

 The river pours over a rock which nearly extends 

 across the channel, 900 yards, and about thirty feet 

 high. These falls are about three miles from its 

 entrance into the Hudson river. 



The falls of the river Passaick^ N. Jer. are justly 

 deemed one of the chief objects to which the attention 

 of strangers is directed. The river is about 40 yards 

 wide, and moves slowly on until it arrives within a 

 small distance of a rock, crossing the channel, and 

 in which there is a deep cleft. Down this the iiiver 

 descends in one sheet, 70 feet perpendicularly : one 

 end of the cleft is closed, and at the other the stream 

 rushes out with great violence, and is received into 

 a large bason, whence it takes a winding course 



« Dr. MlKhd]. 



