THE FALLS OF KEEWASH. 31 
rank of General have they any claim to a retiring allow- 
ance or pension. 
From the pavilion is seen a magnificent view of the 
falls; and there has been constructed below the fall a 
footbridge, more than half a verst long, leading towards a 
little wooden temple on the higher level, from which the 
most striking view of the falls may be had, and other views 
are obtained in passing along this bridge. 
The Falls of Keewash are on a river by which a higher- 
lying lake within the Russian boundary empties its waters 
into a series of lakelets by which they find their way into 
Lake Onega, and thence by the Svir into Lake Ladoga. The 
Russians distinguish between rapids and a waterfall; the. 
latter they call kosk?, the former koskia. The Falls of 
Imatra may be cited as a specimen of the koskia. The Falls. 
of Keewash are, strictly speaking, a specimen of thekoski. As 
the Falls of Niagara are, divided by Goat Island into two 
distinct, waterfalls, so it is with Keewash: from the right 
bank of the river, not the left, as in Niagara, there is a 
miniature resemblance of the Horse-shoe Fall, and for a- 
little way behind the surface of the upper stream may be. 
seen from the shore the vacant space over which the. 
water shoots; but soon this is broken into what I can 
only describe as a gigantic counterpart to the falling 
of the laps of the wig of the Speaker of the House: 
of Commons, and that worn by the Lord Chancellor of 
England. 
Beyond the dividing island there flows away the 
remainder of the stream, but by far the greater portion 
of this makes its escape by the side, pouring over and 
between ridges of rock like the teeth of a comb, and 
forming a continuation of the fall. A small portion makes: 
its way behind the pavilion to the lower basin. 
Elsewhere I had seen logs dashing over waterfalls— 
rushing along ‘seething, boiling, tumbling, racing waters,’ 
and had looked down upon the basin into which the waters 
fell, ‘in whose circling depths logs and tree-trunks, stripped. 
