When we come to the river, there is only a narrow pass for about fths of a mile between the river and the foot of the rocks. When we come to the Falls the scene which presents is sublime. We now enter Plerkimer county-- and a small village of the town of Herkimer, called Little Falls, by which the canals pass, which were constructed in '95. The length of the canal is f'''^ of a mile. There are 6 locks. The appearance of the falls is sublime. The village is built upon a ledge of rock. It promises fair to be a place of business as to trade, as all produce of the Royal grants will naturally be brought here to be shipped. They have a new and beautiful meetiug-iiouse, standing about 40 rols lack on the hill, built in the form of an octagon. I am now, July 27th, about 30 rods from fall mountain on the south. Between this and the mountain is the Mohawk, and a bridge over it, in length about 16 rods. Between this and the bridge is tiie caual. On the right, about 40 rods are the falls, or one bar of the falls in full view. The falls extend about f t^^ of a mile. Upon the whole, this place is the most romantic of any I ever saw ; and the objects are such as to excite sublime ideas in a reflecting mind.

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rrom the appearance of the rocks, and fragments of rocks where the town is built, it is, I think, demonstrably evident, that the waters of the Mohawk, in passing over that fall, w^ere 80 or 90 feet higher in some early period than they are now. Y« Rocks even an hundred feet perpendicular above y^ present high water mark, are worn in the same manner as those over which y^ river passes.