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existing cataract by a higher section of the gorge (Fig. 384). It 

 is quite likely that this table will furnish the most satisfactory 

 viewpoint of the future cataract of that date. 



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FIG. 884. Comparison of the present with the future falls. 



The captured Canadian Fall at Wintergreen Flats. What we 

 have predicted for the future of the present American Fall will 

 be the better understood from the study of a monument to ear- 

 lier capture made long before the upper section of the gorge had 

 been cut or the whirlpool had come into existence. The tables 

 were then turned, for it was a fall upon the Canadian side of the 

 gorge that was captured by one upon the American. The locality 

 is known as Wintergreen Flats, or sometimes as Fosters Flats; 

 though the first name properly applies to a higher surface near the 



FIG. 385. Bird's-eye view of the captured Canadian Fall at Wintergreen Flats, 

 showing the section of the river bed above the cliff and the blocks of fallen Niagara 

 limestone strewn over the abandoned channel below (after Gilbert). 



