creek to the town which is a
large village containing many
good buildings, We pass’d through
the skirts of the town, & in about 4
miles of stony rough land, got to
Greenskill; here we took our break-
fast at De Witt’s, in a rocky country.
He has a merchant mill near by,
on the most natural dam & fall
I think I ever saw. There is a
ridge of rocks runs across the kill,
& on each side of which is firm
land, one end of the mill head,
which conveys the water on the
wheels, rests on these rocks, from
which to the opposite shore is but 10
feet; the miller told me that by
putting an eigteen inch board, on
the top of about 18 inches already
rais’d, on the ridge of rocks, he