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man, in hauling a boat up one of these channels, was, 
by the breaking of the line, precipitated into the 
stream and hurried down the cascade with such rapid- 
ity, that all efforts to save him were ineffectual. His 
body was afterwards found and interred near the 
spot. 
Oct. 1.—Hill Gates is the name imposed on a ro- 
mantic defile, whose rocky walls rising perpendicu- 
larly to the height of ‘sixty or eighty feet, hem in the 
stream for three-quarters of a mile, in many places so- 
narrowly, that there is a want of room to ply the 
oars. In passing through this chasm we were natur- 
atly led to contemplate the mighty but, probably, 
slow and gradual effects of the water in wearing down 
such vast masses of rock; but in the midst of our 
speculations, the attention was excited anew to a 
grand and picturesque rapid, which, surrounded by the 
most wild and majestic scenery, terminated the defile. 
The brown fishing-eagle had built its nest on one of 
the projecting cliffs. In the course of the day we 
surmounted this and another dangerous portage, 
called the Upper and Lower Hill Gate Portages, 
crossed a small sheet of water, termed the White-Fall 
Lake, and entering the river of the same name, arrived. 
at the White Fall about an hour after sunset, having 
come fourteen miles on a 8. W. course. . 
The whole of the 2d of October was spent in carry- 
