88 R. Bakewell on the Falis of Niagara. 
The American Fall has not the material to work with, that 
belongs to the Canada Falls. In one case the water is but thinly 
spread over a wide surface. In the other, the water is carri 
over one-third of the distance in one vast unbroken mass of 
great depth and volume,—an exhibition of power immeasurably 
beyond that of the American Falls. We have no definite meas- 
urement of the relative amount of water pouring over the two 
in which the Canada Falls were toiling night and day alone in 
that vast wilderness. It is highly probable th 
in the channel of the river above the rapi 
on the American side more to the 
American Fall, as may be seen by referring to fig. 2. 
carried off the 
at a slight deviation 
rried 0: waters 
st, thus producing the — 
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