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Show TRJ\Vf.LS TIIP- OUGll UPPER C ANADA: Niagar·t River il1i.tcs from th e·1!lern extremity of Lake Erie, and after a coui~ of th irty - fix mike:; diflharges itfdf into Lake O nt a r~ o, as ]us alr ,.'.l ly been mcnt io tlcd. For the fidl: ft:w milt: fi-om Lake Erie, the bre:.tdth of the ri ve r is about three hundred yards, and it is deep cnou1'h for vdJds drawinr- lline or ten icct water; but th current i · io 0 0 cxtremcly r<~p id alld irreg ttlar, and th channel fo intricate, on account of the numbcrlcJs Lu·g .. rock · in di fferent pbces, th<lt no other \"Cflcls than bateaux ·vcr attempt to pa(s al mg it. As you prorecd downward tl c river widens, no rocks arc to be icen either along the flwrcs or in the <..h,mncl , and the waters g iJ · fnJOothly along, though the current COlltinues very {hong. The river runs thu. evenly, and is navigable with j;tfcty for bateaux as .filr a · Fort Chippeway, which is about three tniles above the f:1!1s; but here the bed of it again b ·comes rocky, and the water· arc ,-iolcntly agit,lt d by pafiinn- down fucc t.:Oi ve rapids, fo much io in< kcd, that \ve rc a boat by any hance to be carried but a little way beyond hipreway, where people uiually frop, nothing could favc it from being d.lfl1ed to pieces long before it c:unc to the falls. With fuch ail:oni01ing impctuofity do the waves break on the rocks in thefe rnpids, that the mere fight of them from the top of the banks is fuflicient to make yon !huddcr. I mufl: in this place, however, obfcrve, that it is only on each fide of the river that the waters arc fo much troubled; in the middle of it, tho tg 1 the current is alfo there uncommonly fwift, yet the breakers are not fo dangcrou but bo,Hs may pais down, if dextcroufiy managed, to an i!hnd which divides the riv(;r at the very falls. To go down to this ifland it is nccclfary to fet off at fomc diil:ance above Chipf eW< ty, where the current is even, anc.l to k p exatlly in the middle of the river the wl10l~ way th ither ; if th ... boats w re fuffcrecl to get out of their courfe ever 1o little, either to the right or Jcft, it would be impoOible to ftem the current, and bring them again into it; they would be irrefiftibly carried towards the fall , and deClruc:tion mufl: inevitably follow. In returning from the ifland there i:; il:ill more ditliculty and danger tlun in going to it. T"otwithfi-anuing thefc circumfi- ances, numbers of perfons have the foolharJinefs to proceed to this i!land, merely for the fake of beholding the falls fi·om the oppofite fide of |