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—named by Back, “ Parry’s Falls ’’—is described by him in the 
following words : 
“From the only point at which the greater part of it was 
“visible, we could distinguish the river coming sharp round a 
“rock and falling into an upper basin almost concealed by in- 
“tervening rocks, whence it broke in one vast sheet into a 
“ chasm between four and five hundred feet deep, yet in appear- 
‘ance so natrow that we could almost step across it. Out of 
“this the spray rose in misty columns several hundred feet 
“above our heads, but as it was impossible to see the main fall 
“ from the side on which we were in the following spring I paid 
“a second visit to it, approaching from the western bank. ‘The 
“road to it, which I traveled in snow shoes, was fatiguing in 
“the extreme and scarcely less dangerous, for to say nothing of 
“the steep ascents, fissures in the rocks, and deep snow in the 
“valleys, we had sometimes to creep along the narrow shelves 
“of precipices, slippery with the frozen mist that fell on them. 
“ But it was a sight that well repaid any risk. The whole face 
“of the rocks forming the chasm was entirely coated with blue, 
“ereen, and white ice, in thousands of pendant icicles, and there 
“were, moreover, caverns, fissures and overhanging ledges in 
“all imaginable variety of forms, so curious and beautiful as to 
“surpass anything of which I have ever heard or read. 
“The immediate approach was extremely hazardous, nor 
“could we obtain a perfect view of the lower fall in conse- 
“quence of the projection of western cliffs. 
“ At the lowest position which we were able to attain, we 
““ were. still more than one hundred feet above the level of the 
“bed of the river beneath, and this, instead of being narrow 
“enough to step across, as it had seemed from the opposite 
“height, was found to be at least two hundred feet wide. 
“The color of the water varied from a very light to a very 
“dark green, and the spray which spread a dimness above was 
“thrown up in clouds of light gray. 
“ Niagara, Wilberforce Falls in Hood’s River, the Falls of 
“ Kacabikka near Lake Superior, the Swiss or Italian Falls, al- 
