n the South Side of Ontario Valley. 59 

 sen Lake Erie and 



i, designed to give 

 of the strata on the 

 ican side of the Niagara, 

 lrly a copy of one sent to 

 ite Professor Barton in 

 and since returned to me 

 s executor, the late Dr. 

 Seybert. I am pleased to 

 3ne so nearly the same, 

 led by Professor Eaton, 

 ith of the 12 mile creek 

 (down which it is design- 

 lead the Welland canal,) 

 reat stratum of shell lime 

 rs to have suuk to a level, 

 low not how lov 



made, i 



By ex- 



ed, that at the depth of 8 feet 

 lower than the level of the sur- 

 face of the deep water above the 

 falls, not a stone exists. The 

 face of the rock may be as low 

 as the bottom of the Chippewa, 

 (here 40 feet deep) and the flow 

 of the water through said canal, 

 becoming unmanageable, we 



! might see the destruction of the 

 famed Niagara Falls, as the 

 Fairhaven Falls, on the Poultney 

 river, have been destroyed, and 



, by which operation a part of the 

 state of New-York was thrown 

 into Vermont. The naked rocks 

 here remain, never more to be 



wet but by the droppings of Heaven. In one night, a single man, 

 it is said, set the stream to remove what millions could not again 

 replace. The fine navigable Fairhaven bay, 9 miles in length, 

 was turned into flats and shallows where no sloop can enter. — 

 The fish were all killed by the feculent flood. 



