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rocks. These rapids, alone, would be visited by thousands in 
any other situation. The decent is about 60 feet in half'a mile. 
On crossing the bridge, for which I paid 25c., I came to the 
Enchanted Island, commonly called Goats’ Island (e).  Se- 
veral females were g: athering wild raspberries, of which there 
was great abundance. As i was rambling through this de- 
lightful spot, I observed, at a short distance, a ‘tall figure, 
in a long dark-coloured cloak, with an old broade brimmed 
hat, a folio book under his arm, and a staff or wand in ne 
hand, walking majestically towards me. I felt a kind « 
awe on approaching this singular-looking character, a 
appeared the Genius of the place, the Prospero of the island. 
When I came up with him, he gave mea mysterious look, and 
passed. ‘To foliow up the fiction of the Enchanted Island, a. 
Miranda was not wanting, for I had seen her gathering fruit ; 
and, as for Caliban, he was, no doubt, growling mischief 
under the Falls. 
Following the course of the stream, from the bridge to 
the Falls, I came to a ver y retired nook or spot of eround (/), 
where not more than two or three persons could safely stand 
without the fear of being elbowed down the cataract. Seated 
on the root of a tree, under a natural arbour which overhung 
the abyss, I surveyed, with mingled feelings of admiration and 
awe, the beauty and grandeur of the scene beneath me. It 
ras a most lovely day : sunshine and cloud, by turns, swept 
over the face of Nature; the effect was heightened by the 
magical appearance of the inconstant r: ainbow: This was the 
segment of a circle, and not a circular iris like that before 
mentioned. A ledge of rock (0) divides the water into two 
unequal falls. These Falls are higher than the Horse-shoe 
Falls, and, being much narrower, they appear still more so. 
The breadth of the island is about 500 yards from this point 
to the Canada Falls, on approaching which, I came unex- 
pectedly upon an open piece of ground that commands a fine 
view of the rapids (d), whose turbulent career commences 
nalf a mile from the Fall. The distant horizon to the south 
is bounded by forests. On the opposite woody banks were 
seen the two hotels, and, to the north, the beautiful avenue 
of rocks, clothed with vegetation, through which the river 
escapes. 
A railed platform (m) has been constructed on the rocks, 
extending over the water from the island, to the commence- 
ment of the curve which forms the concave central part of the 
Horse-shoe. The whole Canada Fall may be said to form 
three curves: the two sides are small, being slightly convex ; 
the centre concave, with the edge much broken. The station 
