it is call’d, which lies horizontally
& runs across the river, which
bank we thought not safe to de-
scend when here before by reason
of the sleet or ice, that cover’d the
hill, which sleet had collected
from the mist that ascended from
the violent agitation of the water.
It was now about noon & a clear
warm day, the fog taht ascended
was abundantly less than the
cold morning I was here before
yet before we got to the bottom of
the bank the bushes & c. became
very wet, & I believ’d had we stay’d
on the rock at the grand pitch
one hour our cloathes would
have been nearly wet thro’; we
now had a very fair prospect
of the water shooting over the