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two miles ,wide where you pass oyer it. TW 
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road is here formed, with large logs of wood 
laid close X ogether, and on each side are ditches 
to keep it dry. This was the first place where 
we met with musquitpes, and they apnoyed 
us not a little ip passing. Towards the latter 
end of the summer, Philadelphia is much in- 
fested with them; but they had not made 
their appearance when we left that city. The 
Posaick River runs close upon the borders of 
tins marshy and there is an excellent wooden 
bridge across it, somewhat similar to that at 
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New Brunswick over the Raritan River. 
About fifteen miles above it there is a very re- 
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markable fall in the river. The river, at the 
fall, is about forty yards wide, and flows with 
a gentle current till it comes within a few 
perches of the edge of the fall, when it suddenly 
precipitates itself, in one entire sheet, oyer a 
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ledge of rocks of nearly eighty feet in perpen-* 
dicular height; below, it runs on through a 
chasm, formed of immense rocks on each side; 
they are higher than the fall, and seem to havq 
been once united together. 
In this neighbourhood there is a yery rich 
copper mine; Repeated attempts have been 
made to work it; but whether the price of 
labour be too great for such an undertaking, 
or the proprietors have not proceeded with 
judgment, certain it is, that they have always 
