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man, in hauling a boal ap one of these channels, v 

 by the breaking of the line, precipitated into the 

 :iu and hurried clown the cascade with such rapid- 

 ity, that all efforts to save him were ineffectual. His 

 body was afterwards found and interred near the 



Spot. 



Oct. 1. — II ill Gates is the name imposed on a ro- 

 mantic defile, whose rocky walls rising perpendicu- 

 larly to the height of sixty or eighty feet, hem in the 

 Btream lor three-quarters of a mile, in many places so 

 narrowly, that there is a want of room to ply the 

 oars. In passing through this chasm we were natur- 

 ally led to conteinplate the mighty but, probably, 

 Blow and gradual effects of the water in wearing down 

 Midi vast masses of rock ; hut in the midst of our 

 speculations, the attention was excited anew to a 

 grand and picturesque rapid, which, surrounded by th i 

 most wild and majestic scenery, terminated the defile. 

 The brown fishing-eagle had built its nest on one 

 the projecting cliffs. In the course of the day 

 surmounted this and another dangerous porta 

 called tl er and Lower Hill (late Porta; 



jed a small sheet of water, termed the White-l' 

 Lake, and entering the river o[' the same name, an I 

 at the White Fall about an hour after sunset, bavin ■■• 

 come fourteen miles on a S. \Y. course. 



The whole of the :2d of October was spent in carry- 



