Genesee

Genesee, a remarkable river rising in Pennsylvania, and flowing nearly 200 miles north through western New York into Lake Ontario, 7 miles N. of Rochester. The Genesee is famous for its extraordinary falls. Three of these occur within a distance of $1\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ mile; two are respectively 68 and 90 feet high, and the Portage Falls are 110 feet high. The river has also a sheer fall of 95 feet at Rochester, utilised for water-power; and another cascade, a few miles below, is almost as high.