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The next morning the net furnished us with ten 
white fish and trout. Having made a further deposit 
of iron work for the Esquimaux, we pursued our voy- 
age up the river, but the shoals and rapids in this part 
were so frequent, that we walked along the banks the 
whole day, and the crews labored hard in carrying the 
canoes thus lightened over the shoals or dragging them 
up the rapids, yet our journey ina direct line was only 
about seven miles. In the evening we encamped at 
the lower end of a narrow chasm through which the 
river flows for upwards of a mile. The walls of this 
chasm are upwards of two hundred feet high, quite 
perpendicular, and in some places only a few yards 
apart. The river precipitates itself into it over a rock, 
forming two magnificent and picturesque falls close to 
each other. The upper fall is about sixty feet high, 
and. the lower one at least one hundred, but perhaps 
considerably more, for:the narrowness of the chasm 
into which it fell prevented us from seeing its bottom, 
and we could merely discern the top of the spray far 
beneath our feet. The lower fall is divided into two, 
by an insulated column of rock which rises about forty 
feet above it. The whole descent of the river at this 
place probably exceeds two hundred and fifty feet. 
The rock is very fine felspathose sandstone. It has a 
smooth surface and a light red color. _ I have named 
these magnificent cascade “ Wilberforce Falls,” as a 
