Date: 1860
On the other side of this stream stood a cotton mill, with a tall chimney like a minaret blackened by a conflagration.  Behind the mill a long narrow reservoir held a supply of water for the steam-engine and the Mrater- wheel.  The side of the ravine from which the bluff projected rose at an angle not exceeding sixty degrees, but the opposite side was as precipitous as was consistent writh a partial covering of hazel, bramble, and larch.