V 
l‘^'i'(l f ’ *'3viiig been sounded with a line of several 
'0 ^'idh' without the bottom being reached. 
the stupendous North American cataracts 
i>|, ™ay be noticed the one formed by the 
V'h' "■'hieh discharge.s itself into the sea at the 
.Hv °f the Stale of New Jersey. About 
h'oni the mouth of this riv'er, where it ha.s a 
^ t'lvjfj °°nt a hundred and twenty I'eet, and runs with 
its it reaches a deep chasm, or cleft, which 
entifp^'?t'ed, and falls about seventy feet perpendicular 
til I Otie end of the clitF is closed up, and 
'L^t'Uig tt!s out at the other with incredible rapidity, 
ytl;* to its former direction, and is received into 
%'■ 3ri(i ■ ^t thence takes a winding course through the 
'St is f again into a very considerable ohaniicl. 
jj ‘ttitifoLir to twelve feet in breadth, and is sup- 
^®^ti produced by an earthquake. When 
visited by a late British traveller, the spray 
“^‘■'ytitul rainbows, primary and secondary, 
p in producing as fine a scene as the 
j^S'l'tgli Conceive. It was heightened by another 
of o. magnificence, about ninety feet above. 
on llie river Mississippi, descend 
\p^drg(j^P lieight of thirty feet, and are nearly 
■ In ,%t, j in widdi, while the shore on each side is 
‘ any intervening rock or precipice, 
nt *'• among the cataracts which merit a brief 
i.-'e 'j'g cited the one in Devonshire, ne.ir are spot 
N ..is aho*^^' receives the small river Lid. The rvater 
^ ^ liundred feet : it proceeds from a mill at 
V* fr ® course on a descent of nearly one 
level of the mill, reaches the brink of 
0*^6 ttia "'iicnce it falls in a most beautiful and 
and, striking on a part of the cliti', 
‘ 'videf cataract to tliQ bottom, wr.ere 
V ''‘lid- Ihe*^ S'‘cat violence, it makes a deep and fqam- 
'''S ail- This fine sheet of water causes tiro 
i,' hisj^'^ttigu bottom to be so impregnated with 
that those who approach it find tliemselve.? 
(jh j'^'^^crland 'Itci'c ate several cataracts ; but 
tit beauty by a remarkable fall ol die 
®*tC£u Qp jjjjj county of Duihattj, over 
