The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . y be obtained ; but the best places to observe them inall their beauty and grandeur, are at and near the Cataract House, in thevillage of Cohoes, which stands upon the summit verge of a precipice onehundred and seventy feet in height. Down a steep slope of that precipice,for about fifty feet, the proprietor has constructed a fiight of steps, andupon the top of a broad terrace at their foot he has planted a flower garden,for the enjoyment of visitors. Around its edge, from which may beobtained a view of the entire cataract, is a railing with seats, a
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . y be obtained ; but the best places to observe them inall their beauty and grandeur, are at and near the Cataract House, in thevillage of Cohoes, which stands upon the summit verge of a precipice onehundred and seventy feet in height. Down a steep slope of that precipice,for about fifty feet, the proprietor has constructed a fiight of steps, andupon the top of a broad terrace at their foot he has planted a flower garden,for the enjoyment of visitors. Around its edge, from which may beobtained a view of the entire cataract, is a railing with seats, and therethe visitor may contemplate at ease the wild scene on every hand. Onhis left, as he gazes up the river, rush large streams of water from thetop of the precipice above him, in almost perpendicular currents, from thewaste-sluices of a canal, which, commencing at a dam almost two miles no THE HUDSON. above the falls, conveys water to numerous mill-wheels in the this means immense hydraulic power is obtained and distributed.*. VIEW AT COHOES FALLS. The width of the grand cataract of Cohoes is nine hundred feet, andthe fall seventy-eight feet, of which about forty are perpendicular. * The wafer-power at Cohoes was under the control of a stock company, who rented it to the pro-prietors of mills and factories. Tlie entire fall of water controlled by the company was one hundi-ed andtwenty feet; and the minimum supply of water was one tliousand cubic feet each second. The estimatedvalue of tlic various articles manufacttired there at tliat time, was nearly tlu-ee millions of dollarsper annum. THE HUDSON. HI Below the fall, the water rushes over a rocky bed, in foaming rapids,between high banks, to the plain, where the islands divide it intochannels, and through these it flows gently into the Hudson. It was abeautiful afternoon in early spring when we visited the falls. The waterwas abundant, for the snow upon the hills that border the charmingvalley of the Mohawk was
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