CHAUTAUQUE LAKE, (726 feet above Lake Erie.)

Chautauque, D. S. Walbridge, 50 tons.

Total 93, including 9 British boats.

Steam-boat Wharves at the City of New-York.

Hudson River Line--Pier at the foot of Courtland-street.

NATURAL CURIOSITY.

View near the Upper Falls on the Genesee River at Nunda, Allegany County.

LETTER FROM DANIEL WADSWORTH, ESQ. TO PROFESSOR SILLIMAN. MY DEAR SIR,-The view I send you, is taken from the vicinity of the Upper Falls of the Genesee river, a quarter of a mile below the last cascade, twenty-three miles above Moscow, and about sixty south of Lake Ontario. The river, in its windings, traverses a much greater distance before it reaches the Lake. The rock which, in the drawing, is facing the spectator, rises probably to the height of four hundred and fifty feet.* The scenery in that neighbourhod is very little known, but when all the points worth visiting, both at the top and foot of the rocks, are rendered more accessible, and there are good accommodations for lodgings, it must become a place of great resort; and not improbably this may have taken place since my visit to the spot, (in 1827.) So rapidly does every thing advance in this country.

There are three distinct falls, included in a distance of three miles. They differ as much as possible from each other, having their own peculiar beauties, and each a different and laborious approach, they are respectively sixty, ninety, and one hundred and ten feet high: to see them all, is now no light undertaking, but will soon, I think, be rendered a very easy one.

The cascades themselves would, any where else, be objects of great admiration, and are fully deserving of a particular description; but they are almost forgotten in the feelings of wonder and even of fear, with which the sublime perpendicular walls of the river inspire you. They may truly be called walls, for they do not, like the beautiful rocks at Trenton, recede as they approach the top; but are, for a great distance, perfectly upright or impending, and almost as regular, for a great part of three miles, as a work of art; and rising, as the inhabitants around tell you, from two to five hundred feet, and so they appear; but probably four hundred is not beyond the truth. To this depth the river seems to have worn its circuitous passage in the rock, in turns almost as short, and bends nearly as graceful, as if winding through the softest meadows. I never have witnessed, in nature, a scene of more savage grandeur and loneliness than the view from these fearful walls, when looking into the gulph

*As we were gazing in some trepidation from the brink of the less elevated but nearer precipice on the left, a hardy young man of the party exclaimed, "with an almost inarticulate voice, "I wonder these trees are not afraid to grow here."