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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1803 Excerpt: ... Storm or Hurricane of Wind & rain but if possible--the confined air--here--exceeds it in velocity. We make the best of our Way from this Shower Bath, & scramble over the Stones for a quarter of a Mile where we assended the Bank by what is called the New Ladder. Compared with our descent we got up this path easily and for fifty or sixty feet had only to climb up a proper & strong Ladder, We hastened back to the House where we had left our horses & clothes, & after resting ourselves we proceed on our way towards Chippewa. When we get up to the Falls we again dismount to view them from the Bank upon a line with them--& take our Station from Table rock so called from its projecting over the river nearly 50 feet--& from its thinness being composed of only one solid Sheet of Rock--here we had the best prospect of them--the noise however was so great (as well as below)--that we could not hear one another speak--the view here is truly grand & Majestic. The height from the Bed of River is almost terrific. The Sprays asscending in a column & forming vast Clouds in the Atmosphere is not the least surprizing object--to which may be added the various tints & hues of them which the Sun rendered dazzling & beautiful, we had now a full view of the Rainbow which, was nearly a complete circle and whose arch extended from one end of the Fall to the other. Some fragments of another larger one were perceptible above it but not very distinct. The river here is perhaps about three quarters of a Mile over--but as the Falls do not cross it in a straight direction it is reckoning their Bend not far short of a Mile. In nearly the middle of the river, situation nearer to the East than the West Edge is an Island which divides the Fall into two parts--from the West Bank to the Island--t...
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