92 R. Bakewell on the Falis of Niagara. 
lished, and which may be considered as permanent points of 
reference for the future.’ 
Leaving, for the present, all speculation respecting the origin 
of the chasm extending for seven miles, let us look at the Falls 
as we now find them, and the ravine through which the waters 
rush on their way to Lake Onta On walking from Table 
rock by the precipice to the sree the high ‘bank of drift 
to the left becomes less elevated, and retires a little farther to 
the west. At the whirlpool it caps the limestone at the preci- 
ae ee which there is the bed of a stream and over which 
when a i oe scene opens upon us. Here, we have at one 
view the ee wall-like —. of the rocks stretching above 
and below the whirlpool on the American side. On the Canada 
side two bold promontories mark the entrance and the outlet of 
the ieee These are On wooded down to the water's 
ded of drift for a short dittafioe from ns precipice, and sh i sur- 
face is very level. I noticed that with one exception, the preci- 
pice rises immediately from the river. Where this occurs, an 
amphitheatre is formed larger, I think, than at the whirlpool, ‘the 
floor of which is wooded leaving the breadth of the river nearly 
the same. On passing round this semi-circle, the high drift again 
comes to the a ge of the precipice, and through the drift a wh 
bed of a stream tends towards the precipice. The rocks yobs ire 
side, as far as the rapids below the whirlpool extend, pre 
about the same distance from each other as they do at the apis 
above the whirlpool. The torrent for more than a mile rushes 
with the same impetuosity over hidden rocks as before, neon it 
gradually subsides and moves on smoothly, but cit? towards 
the outlet. On approaching the end of this gorge the drift again 
is 8% capping the limestone on which Brock’s monument is 
erecté 
* A very interesting incident took place as I was engaged in making a a sketch of 
the scene. A beautiful little. bird flew over my head, and perched upon a log of 
wood which was floating along on the outskirts of the vortet of the / noe I noticed 
it di r satisfied with i 
bird Gauitered ite w wings. This was ese: tinion sepeatad--ghter which law toned: 
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