No 29 On three and a half miles to tlie Falls, tlie water deep all tlie way, current gentle, except at the place called the Ha3xocks, where the navigation '

is sometimes dangerous, occasioned by about one hundred rocks : , . . . . 3 1-2

From Schenectady to tlie Fails 53 miles.

30 From the landing at the foot, to tlie landing at the head of the Falls, is al)out three qu-u-ters of a mile, the height thirty-nine feet two inclies,

. . the ground stony, rocky and rough ^ proceeded

the 27th : 3-4

31 On four miles in very good water, then a pretty strong rapid, extending one quiirter of a mile, sufficiently deep, gravel bottom: 4 1-4

32 On one half mile, good water, to a strong sharp rapid, formerly called Orendorffs rift, falls a foot

. in about eighty yards two feet water, a line

gravel bottom : 1-2

33 On one mile in good water, then arrived at the Wolf Rift, extending about one half mile, bottom fine gravel, shallow, and the cliannel crooked, occasioned by banks of gravel in the river: .... 1 1-2

34 On to Fort Herkimer three quarters of a mile,

good water, here lay the night of tlie 27^^ 3-4

35 On to Fort Schuyler as the river runs about forty-five miles, in all this extent a few rapids and most of these of little consequence, those that impede the navigation in very dry season easily deepened, as the water above them is invariably deep, tlie greatest obstruction is from timber in the bottom, and on the sides of the