West Point March 20^th 1789 [No. 12?] I have recd your [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] McGreer — No Stone has been [undecipherable] to look after the Rapids, last Could find Only One which is I think the Discharge of the Channel — on the two Sides of the Shore by this there three [holes/falls] lower than — for there is [find/found] to be [Conveniently] opposite to fort Montgomery and to be [Covered] in by Stones matter of I Cannot know or learn of any being that he has been — from the first [undecipherable] How — [undecipherable] Reserve to [give] them his [undecipherable] — I know the quantity of log for each of the Gagets to be known Not further — but you the last information I Can get, there was between forty and fifty feet but the breadth the flow we have [Gained]. But this very uncertain because on the [broad] of few rivers as a great nearly of it refered to have been below any [body] of [certain] distances And what now remains is under [undecipherable] a good [undecipherable] how of Men & [undecipherable] that would have [undecipherable] Also the other [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] Q. Which were the Gages to be used — and how done with In the Water The Gages were set given as Joseph & Smith Within three and Very [undecipherable] degrees above the river One nearly [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] we find Montgomery where he burnt it to the Waters [undecipherable] and [undecipherable]. The Other One thinks I have found the Position of the two given and of the Shore where the Edge of the Channel, the numbers of its [undecipherable] folio is to be few at low Water and the Other Side is about the first within both at the Some time owing to his [undecipherable] of us the Edge of the Channel runs in the first part when the three at low Water than to about 40 + five feet Q. Is there any [undecipherable] to be a [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] remaining in the Bottom of [undecipherable] that would [undecipherable] be the [undecipherable] of Some [undecipherable] for in going it [undecipherable] if there are nothing but the