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1787 which we turned off to the right and soon found a path leading 

 ny * to another gully of the same kind, through which we a second 



time descended the bank. Having got down to the level ground, 

 we could find no kind of path; we therefore marked the trees 

 as we went, thinking they might serve us as a guide on our return. 

 Thus, guided by the noise of the Falls more than any thing 

 else, we soon came to the brink of the clift and striking off a 

 little to our left found the place we were in search of, and which 

 I believe is now called Painter's Point, from a man of that 

 name in whose ground it is. Here we found a spot which had 

 been in some measure cleared (by Lieutenant Tinling of the 29th 

 when he was acting Engineer at Niagara) on purpose to give 

 you a good view of the whole of this grand object at once, and 

 it most certainly is the best view of any on a level with the Fall, 

 as here every part is by far more equidistant than in any other 

 point you can look at it from. From hence you look directly 

 against the island which is in the centre, having the Great Fall 

 to the right and the smaller one to the left; from this place you 

 have also a better view of a small Fall on the east side of Goat 

 Island which is called the Montmorrency Fall, and which is said 

 to disembogue more water in the course of a year than the famous 

 fall of that name near Quebec, which perhaps it may, but I do 

 not think it is so broad as that Fall. Perhaps its very diminutive 

 appearance here may be only occasioned by its being placed in 

 the midst of such astonishing large ones, as the nearest com- 

 putation that has ever been made allows the breadth of the Fall 

 from one side to the other to be 1 ,300 yards, including all the 

 turns which there are in its summit and the island in the centre; 

 which last may be something more than 1 00 yards broad. 



I could willingly have staid here much longer than we did 

 but having determined to go down to the bottom we were obliged 

 to hasten towards the place where you descend. This place lies 

 some hundred yards to the left of Painter's Point, from which you 

 pass all the way on the brink of the precipice, nor is it easy to find 

 the opening unless you are acquainted with it, as you pass round 



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