. The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany. cea continuance of the public pa-tronage, cannot be doubted j and,it is hoped, that the zeal of itsmembers, aided by the fupport ofpublic-fpirited and enlightenedindividuals, engaged in fimilar pur-fults, will enable the AmericanPhilofophical Society to rendereflential benefits to their country* B. ^;<^~>..>.. FOR THE COLUMBIAN MAGAZINE. A Defcription of the Payfaick Falls. WITH the magazine forApril, was given a pro-fpe£l of the Payfaick Falls, and adefcription of them was promifedto the public ; but as none hasbeen hitherto
. The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany. cea continuance of the public pa-tronage, cannot be doubted j and,it is hoped, that the zeal of itsmembers, aided by the fupport ofpublic-fpirited and enlightenedindividuals, engaged in fimilar pur-fults, will enable the AmericanPhilofophical Society to rendereflential benefits to their country* B. ^;<^~>..>.. FOR THE COLUMBIAN MAGAZINE. A Defcription of the Payfaick Falls. WITH the magazine forApril, was given a pro-fpe£l of the Payfaick Falls, and adefcription of them was promifedto the public ; but as none hasbeen hitherto furnifhed, and thevolume for the prefent year is nowto be clofed ; ihtprefent editor hasthought proper to extract, from Burnabys travels, the followingfhort account of thofe Falls, towhich the plate may be annexed. «* The Payfaick Falls are diftantabout twenty-three miles fromElizabeth-town, in Second or Pay- * Samuel Faughan, efq. a liberal henefador to the injlitutiant luas veryzealous in promoting this undertaking*. .4 An Injlance of Exe77iplary Jujiice 767 faick River. The river is about forty four to twelve feet broad. Theyards broad, and runs wich a very fpray formed two beautiful (*fwift current, till coming to a deep the primary and fecondary) rairiJchafm or cleft, which crofFcs the bows, and helped to make as finechannel, it falls above feventy feet a fcenc as imagination could con-perpendicular, in one entire fheet. celve. This extraordinary pheno-menon is fuppofed to have beenproduced by an earthquake. Aboutthirty yards from the great fall,is another,—a mofl beautiful one,—gliding over fome ledges of rocks,each two or three feet perpendicu-lar ; which heigthens the fcene ve-ry much. One end of the cleft is clofed up,and the water rufhes out at theother, with incredible rapidity, inan acute angle, to its former direc-tion ; and is received into a largebafon. Hence it takes a windingcourfe through the rocks, andfpreads again into a very confidera-ble channel
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