60 or 70 yards wide, & 10 feet deep.
There appear’d to be no current
in the river, occasion’d by a ridge
of rocks that runs across it 5 or 6
miles below, over which the water
falls 20 or more feet. From what
I have seen as well as heard; falls
of this kind are very common on
many of the waters of this part of the coun-
try. As we advanced Southward,
the land improv’d in quality, &
the wonderful ridges of rocks that
were so very common further back,
grew fewer, yet stones rather increas’d,
tho’ most of the land in the latter
part of this stage is arable, more espe-
cially after the stones are drawn off,
which in divers places had been done
& put up in stone fences. Plaister
of Paris has been latterly introduced