or five of the most charming waterfalls to be seen in the State. In 1817
these works comprised five workshops, twenty-eight forges, ten
trip-hammers, eighteen water-wheels, nine coal-houses, three stores, and
five dwellings.

These buildings were all constructed in the most substantial manner, of
stone and brick, and yet remain in an excellent state of preservation.
The trouble and expense attending the transportation of the various
parts of the musket from one series of shops to another, however,
rendered it desirable to assemble them all in one place, and the
location of the upper shops was decided upon as the most advantageous.
About eight years ago the work of constructing the new shops was begun.
Extensive excavations were made for a new dam, the bed of the stream was
changed, the sides being laid for a distance of half a mile with
freestone, and the basin raised five feet above its former level. Some
idea of the magnitude of these works may be formed from the fact that
over one million dollars was expended upon the foundations alone, before
a brick was laid in the superstructure.

A beautiful and extensive series of buildings has since been erected
upon these foundations, covering an area of about two acres, in which
the forging, boring, welding, rolling, grinding, swaging, and polishing
are done for the entire establishment. The buildings are, for the most
part, two stories high, and yet so immense are the operations carried on
here that numerous temporary sheds have been erected about the grounds,
in which machinery is placed in order to increase the facilities, which,
when the works were constructed, were supposed to be sufficient for all
time to come.

Since the construction of the new dam, the water has a fall of