1 3/4 miles before we reached the church, we came to the fourth set of rapids, more violent than any of the earlier ones because it plunged over a cliff. On one side the parson had …. [gap in manuscript] … there was a mill set into the actual hillside. There had been no need to build either a dam or a channel since nature had been kind enough to provide them. The hill was composed of mixed spar. Over to the right, the hill closed in and at one place it became very high, forming a vertical precipice that faced the water like the wall of a very tall castle.