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rifes not fo high as jts own Precipice is ; That its 

 Precipice is not much above one third fo high as 

 that of T'ernty and that inftead of falling upon a 

 fingle Rock, it alights among a multitude of them, 

 which all help to break its force. 



12. But alas! What are thefe paltry Catarads, 

 if we compare them with that amazing one upon 

 the broad River of Niagara^ which waters the 

 French Town of ^eiec, in North America -, a 

 Place attempted to be taken, both by King William 

 and Queen Ann^ in their Wars with France^ but 

 in vain. The Fall there, meafures fix hundred 

 foot J and the monftrous Sheet of Water, has 

 made at the bottom Canal, (which receives it in- 

 to its bofom) fo deep a Cavity, and runs for fix 

 or feven Miles together, with fuch a fierce impe- 

 tuofity, as mufl furprize with horror, all Spec- 

 tators, who have courage enough to look down 

 into it. But I cannot term it fuch a great won- 

 der, confidering the largenefs of that Body of 

 Water, and the great heigth a Man is at above 

 the Canal, v/hich the River throws itfelf into, 

 when he views it near the top of the Hill, from 

 whence the Water falls. I remember, that Father 

 Hennepin^ (a French Miflionary, among the Ca^ 

 nada Indians^ bordering upon its Banks) gives us 

 a fingular defcription of this famous Cafcade^ and 

 Dr. Barclay mentions it in his JJniverJal T'ra^ 

 veller, 



13. Let 



