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Show F J\ L J- S 0 F N I A G A R A. jiJ .>f it, or for the {;tk.e of having in their power to ii1y that they had bc,n upon it. The river forces its wa 'amidfl: the rocks with redoubled impctuofity, as it npproaches towards th fall'; at la£1: coming to the brink of the tremendous precipice, it tumbles headlong tv the bottom, without mcc~ing with any interruption from 1 ocks in its dcfccnt. J ufl: at the pre ipicc the river take a confidcrablc bend to the right, and the line of the falls, infl:cad of extending fi·om bnnk to bank in the fhortdl: dircCl:ion 1 runs obliqu ely acrois. The width of the .f:dls is conii lcrably greater than the width of the river, adnll'afured fomc way below the 11rceipic ; but the anne. cd pbn will enable you to form a bcttu· idea of their polltioa than any writt n defcr iption wh.ulocvcr. h;r it · gr at accur.1cy I cannot vouch, as it was don<.: IJlerdy fl om the eye; fuch as it i , however, I have fcnt it to you, conce iving it bdtcr th at you fbould have a plan fomewhat imperfcCl than n plan at all. On looking it over you will fcc th at the river docs not run) down the precipice in one unbroken fhcet, but tbat it i divided by iflands into three difl intl: col lateral f.-tlls. The moll: fl:upcndous of th efe is that on the north wdl.ern or Britifl1 fide of th river, commonly called the Great, or Ilorfe-Dwe hdl, fi·om its bearing fome rcfcmblance to the fhapc of a horfe DJOc. The l1eight of this is only one hundred and forty-two fccr, whereas the other arc each one hundred and fixty feet high; but to its inferior heigh t it is indebted principally for its gra ndeur; the precipice, and f ourfe the bed of the river above it, being fo much lower at the one llde than at the other, by far the greater part of the water of the river fin ds its way to the low fide, and ru !l cs do ·:n with O'reater velocity at that fide than it does at the other, the rapid · above the precipice arc firongc fl: there. I t is from the center of the IIorfe-ihoe Fall that arifes that prodigious cloud of mill: which 1 ay be fccn fo far olT. The extent of the IIorfe-fhoe Fall can only be afccrtained by the ey · ; the general opinion of thofe who have mo£1: frequently viewed it is, that it is not lef<> than fix hundred yards in c·rcumfi renee. The iGand which feparates it from the next fall i fuppofed to be about three hundred and fifty yard wide; the fecond fall i · about five yards s s wide |
