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able to add any thing to the interest which will ever be felt by 
those who visit the falls, and its vicinity, my labor will not be 
altogether in vain. 
Fig. 1. 
A Birds-eye View, or Map of the Ravine from the Falls of Niagara to the Whirlpool. 
Canada.—U. United States.—The dotted lines represent the outline of he 
ancient valley, partly filled with dri —F. Ravine.—C. Whirlpool.—B. Sum- 
er-house.—D, E. Quartzose rock seen below the surface of the water. 
ee eed 
Having made several visits to the whirlpool, taking sketches 
from points which I thought most desirable, I found that each visit 
increased my admiration and wonder. A general idea of its situa- 
tion may be had by reference to the drawing, fig. 1, giving a birds- 
eye view of the country from the falls to the whirlpool, a distance 
of three miles. Perhaps I shall make myself better underst 
by giving a description of the ravine from A to B. width 
of the river at the ferry is about eleven hundred and forty feet. 
The height of the rocks, one hundred and eighty feet. 
the verge of the precipice, a little below the American falls, 
there is a path which leads directly to the Summer-house, B, 
Situated immediately above the whirlpool ; this path continues 
close to the edge of the precipice. About half a mile down, we 
come to the ‘cave’ before alluded to—a bare rock on which 
nothing grows—a place of deep interest to the traveller as he 
