THE FALLS OF KEEWASH. 31 



rank of General have they any claim to a retiring allow- 

 ance or pension. 



From the pavilion is seen a magnificent view of the 

 falls; and there has been constructed below the fall a 

 footbridge, more than half a verst long, leading towards a 

 little wooden temple on the higher level, from which the 

 most striking view of the falls may be had, and other views 

 are obtained in passing along this bridge. 



The Falls of Keewash are on a river by which a higher- 

 lying lake within the Russian boundary empties its waters 

 into a series of lakelets by which they find their way into 

 Lake Onega, and thence by the Svir into Lake Ladoga. The 

 Russians distinguish between rapids and a waterfall ; the 

 latter they call koski, the former koskia. The Falls of 

 Imatra may be cited as a specimen of the koskia. The Falls 

 of Keewash are, strictly speaking, a specimen of ihekoski. As 

 the Falls of Niagara are, divided by Goat Island into two 

 distinct waterfalls, so it is with Keewash : from the right 

 bank of the river, not the left, as in Niagara, there is a 

 miniature resemblance of the Horse-shoe Fall, and for a 

 little way behind the surface of the upper stream may be 

 seen from the shore the vacant space over which the 

 water shoots; but soon this is broken into what I can 

 only describe as a gigantic counterpart to the falling 

 of the laps of the wig of the Speaker of the House 

 of Commons, and that worn by the Lord Chancellor of 

 England. 



Beyond the dividing island there flows away the 

 remainder of the stream, but by far the greater portion 

 of this makes its escape by the side, pouring over and 

 between ridges of rock like the teeth of a comb, and 

 forming a continuation of the fall. A small portion makes 

 its way behind the pavilion to the lower basin. 



Elsewhere I had seen logs dashing over waterfalls 

 rushing along ' seething, boiling, tumbling, racing waters/ 

 and had looked down upon the basin into which the waters 

 fell, ' in whose circling depths logs and tree-trunks, stripped 



