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weeks only a few years ago, so what I tell you now 

 is from my own observation. The rapids com- 

 mence by a perpendicular pitch of at least twenty 

 feet over which the water falls in a green wall, only 

 the lip of which is visible from the cloud of 

 ascending spray. The troubled waters now dash 

 down an inclined plane of a mile in length amidst 

 islands of black rock, and then arrive at another 

 cascade of less than ten feet in height which is 

 divided by two rocks. About two miles below this 

 second fall the river widens out into a huge basin 

 surrounded by a perpendicular wall of black rock, 

 from which its waters seem to have no escape, for 

 the outlet is invisible. To the left of this rocky 

 barrier, however, a chasm forty five yards in width 

 gives a passage to the river, which tears down the 

 confined space in a seething mass of foam, through 

 which, however, canoes skilfully handled can pass, 

 for I have taken one down myself frequently. A 

 mile and a half from the end of this channel is a 

 rapid, formed by two rocky islands ; and two miles 

 beyond a ledge of rocks extends from shore to 

 shore forming another cascade twenty feet in height, 

 after which the river is hurried through another 

 long but confined channel for the distance of 

 three miles ; this last race is called the ' Long 

 Narrows,' and is the great salmon ground of the 



