342 PRAIRIE AND FOREST. 
almost the opposite in effect. Looking toward the lake 
the water is placid and calm, with islands and bays, cov- 
ered or sheltered with trees, reposing in quiet peace, while 
beneath the fall, from the effects of the descent, a broad 
course of white foam-water rushing with headlong speed, 
first striking one margin, then ricochetting toward the oth- 
er—now divided by abrupt rocks of irregular outline, or 
THE WILDS. 
swaying round in real whirlpools—descends on its uncon- 
trollable route. The best stand to fish from for those who. 
object to wet feet is a rock about the size of a wagon, thir- 
ty or forty yards beneath the falls, on the right-hand side. 
From this place a person may work for hours with constant 
success. However, if the visitor be of an adventurous dis- 
position, and fears not to wade, the opposite shore is well 
worthy of attention; but as the bottom is extremely rough 
