Niagara Falls 



1679 ToNTY, Henri de. Entreprises de M. de la Salle de 1678 a 1683. 



Tonty Relation ecrite de Quebec, le 14 novembre 1684, par Henri de Tonty. 



(Margy, Decouvertes et etablissements des Francais dans 

 l'Amerique Septentrionale. Tome I, p. 577.) 



Tonty, who was La Salle's lieutenant, visited the Falls February 1, 

 1 679, though his description was not written until five years later. 



Curiosity led me to visit the Fall of Niagara which separates 

 Lake Erie from Lake Frontenac (Ontario). I can only say 

 that it is the most beautiful fall in the world. By our estimate 

 it falls perpendicularly 500 feet and is some 200 toises wide. 

 It throws off vapors which may be seen at a distance of sixteen 

 leagues, and it may be heard at the same distance when it is 

 calm. When once the swans and bustards are caught in its 

 current it is impossible for them to take flight again, and they 

 are dead before they get to the bottom of the fall. 



1688 



1688 Lahontan, Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce, baron de. Nou- 



Lahontan veaux voyages de Mr. le Baron de Lahontan, dans l'Amerique Septen- 

 trionale, qui contiennent une Relation des differens Peuples qui y 

 habitant; la nature de leur gouvernement ; leur commerce, leurs coutumes, 

 leur religion & leur maniere de faire la guerre ... A la Haye, 

 Chez les Freres l'Honore, 1703. Vol. I, p. 107. 



Lahontan, Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce. New voyages to 

 North America. Containing an account of the several nations of that 

 vast continent . . . the several attempts of the English and French 

 to dispossess one another . . . and the various adventures between 

 the French, and the Iroquese confederates of England, from 1683-1694. 

 A geographical description of Canada . . . Written in French by 

 Baron Lahontan . . . Done in English ... A great 

 part of which never printed in the original. London. Printed for H. 

 Bonwicke, T. Goodwin, M. Wotton, B. Tooke, and S. Manship. 1 703. 

 P. 82. 



Lahontan, Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce, baron de. New 

 voyages to North- America, by the Baron de Lahontan; reprinted from 

 the English edition of 1 703, with facsimiles of original title-pages, maps, 

 and illustrations, and the addition of introduction, notes, and index, by 



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