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20 feet in 10 feet. The fish are obstructed here in their attempts to ascend up the river. From appearances they might be easily taken in the season of their ascending the river, but no attempts have hitherto been made to do so.

The rock is a light grey, very much divided in square blocks of various size for building. It requires very little labour to reduce it to form, for plain walls. Large masses of it are so nicely fitted and so regular, as to imitate the walls of an ancient building, where the stone had passed through the hands of a mason. The quantity of this description at the falls and in the hill sides adjoining them is great - sufficient for the building of a large city. 
The falls above spreadout and the river widens to half a mile within that distance; & continues that width for four miles. Within this scope are four islands which were formerly cultivated but are now old fields, margined with cane. The bed of the river is here rocky, shoally, & covered with moss. It is frequented in summer by cattle, horses & deer, and in the winter by swans, geese & ducks.  
On the right bank, opposite the falls, the land is broken, stoney & gravelly. The hill sides fronting the river exhibit this building rock. The timber - post oak, hickory, & pine, all small. From the hills the land spreads off level. The narrow flat margin between the hills & the river convenient for a canal for mills on an extensive scale, and to supply a large