. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey : containing a general collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc., relating to its history and antiquities, with geographical descriptions of every township in the state. Illustrated by 120 engravings. wspapers. Total capital in manufactures,$1,792,500. 1 acad. 80 students ; 16 schools, 1,006 scholars. Manchester, about 9,000. Paterson is celebrated as affording one of the most romanticwaterfalls in the country, and the neighboring scenery is of a highlypicturesque character. A l
. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey : containing a general collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc., relating to its history and antiquities, with geographical descriptions of every township in the state. Illustrated by 120 engravings. wspapers. Total capital in manufactures,$1,792,500. 1 acad. 80 students ; 16 schools, 1,006 scholars. Manchester, about 9,000. Paterson is celebrated as affording one of the most romanticwaterfalls in the country, and the neighboring scenery is of a highlypicturesque character. A late traveller thus describes this wonderof nature : The fall in the river, which was originally 70 feet, has been increased to about 90 feet bya dam above. From this dam, a short sluice conducts the water into a basin or reservoir,partly prepared to the hands of the proprietors, and partly made by art and labor. A * Gordons Gazetteer. PASSAIC COUNTY. 411 causey has been raised across an immense chasm, walled in by rocks, presenting almostperpendicular sides from the bottom of the chasm to the upper edge of the rocks, being of basaltic character, are of rectilinear form, and perpendicular in theirposition; and this accounts for the comparatively smooth sides of this immense excava-. of the Passaic Falls, at Paterson. tlon. The causey serves two very important purposes : it is at once a dam which de-tains the water in the basin from which the milling power is drawn, and the bed of aturnpike road. Below the causey, the terrific chasm continues in its natural state, un-changed by human art, and, a few rods below, receives the remaining waters of the Pas-saic, after it has supplied the heavy demand of the mills. Branching off from the largeropening there is another, running nearly parallel with the river, which gradually dimin-ishes to a mere crevice between the perpendicular sides of the rock. Into this crevice,or opening, the waters of the Passaic, suddenly tur
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