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Show TRAVEL~ THROUGH UPPER CANADA: wide; th next ifhnd about thirty yards; and the third, commonly called tht: Fort Schloper Fall, from bei;1g fitu ,ttcd towards th fide of the.; r; 't'r on which that fort {bnd, i ju ged to admc:1.fm' at lcaf1: as much a3 the br,!,r C ifland. The whole cxtc.nt of the prcr ·J1 ir· r·, th 'TC-f() r ·, including tl1c i0.\11d s, is, according to this con pul. ttiou, thirteen hundred and thirty-five yards. Thi: i. certain ly not an c ·ar\, ratcJ fbtcm nt. Some have fuppohl, that the inc of th ~ J:dl :1lt. ,, thcr C.'l ccds an Englil11 mile. The qu\11tity of w.tter cm·icd dt wn th · f lls is )rodigious. It will be found to ~ ,'10lllt to 67o,zss ons per 111inute, thoup,l caludatell tim ply f10m th ..; follo \v'in ~- d,tLl, ·,·, h1··h .:~llt to be corn:d, as c:ot ;ing from an e:xpericnccd commandu· of on.: of the King' !hi s m LaLt Eric, well :1cquain cd. in every r~ fpcc with that body f wat ·r, viz. th;tt wl ere Lake Erie, tow<-tr ~ its ca!lern C ' trcmity, is two miles and a half wide, the water is hx fee t de:.: p, and tht.: currcnt runs at the rate of two knots m an honr; but Nia 'ar.t I 1Ycr, between this part of Lake Eric and tht.: falls, rLCel cs the watus of fc vcrallarg creeks, the qu; ntity carried down the fall mnfl: therefore be greater than the foregoing computation makcs it to be; if we fcty th .1 t fix hun~ dr d and fevcnty-two thoufand tons of water arc precipitated down the falls every minute, the quantity will not probably be much OV(:rra tcd. To return now to the Table Rock, fituated 011 the Dritilb fide of the 1 ivcr, and on the verge of the Horfc-fhoe Fall. Here the fpcCl:ator has an unobfl:ruCled view of the tr mendous rapids above the falls, and of the <:ir umjaccnt nwres, covered with thick woods; o[ the I Iorfc-{hoc Fall, iome yards below him; of the Fort Schlopcr Fall, at a dif1:ance w the 1 ft; and of the frightful gulph beneath, into which, if he has but courage to approach to the expofed edge of the rocl , he may look down perpendicularly. The aO:oniiliment exc ited in the r 1ind of the fpeB:ator by the vafin [s of the difrcr<..:nt objeCts which he contemplates from hence is great indeed, and few perfons, on coming here for the firO: time, can for fame mi JUtes collcC.l themfclv s fufijcicntly to be ab le to form any tolerable conception of the O:npendou ceu..: before them . It is irnpoffiblc for the eye to embrace the whole of it at once; iL muO: gradually make itfclf acquainted, in the firft place, with the com-ponent \ \ |