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 which I should have thought dangerous for a boat. Could I 18 ©7 



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have obtained a canoe or skiff, 1 should not have hesitated a 

 moment about trying the experiment. There are considerable 

 quantities of fish, deer and other animal bones found along this 

 shore, being, as I suppose, the remains of such as have been 

 crushed in the falls. It is the common opinion, however, that 

 the smaller fish generally escape unhurt. 



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I am much surprised that a place so celebrated as the Falls 

 of Niagara, and which is visited by so many travellers, amongst 

 whom are no inconsiderable number of ladies, should not yet 

 have induced some enterprising person to erect a convenient house 

 on this side of the river for their accommodation, as likewise a 

 proper stairs for descending to the bottom of the falls. Twenty- 

 five dollars would defray the expense of a convenient stair-ladder 

 with hand-rails; and surely no person, after travelling from two 

 hundred to one thousand miles to view the falls, would hesitate to 

 pay one, or even five dollars, for a safe and easy conveyance to 

 the bottom. Judge P. who owns the lands adjoining the falls 

 on this side of the river, informed me he should, as soon as 

 possible, build a house near the best view of the falls, and 

 appoint some proper person to keep a genteel tavern for the 

 accommodation of the curious. He will likewise erect a stairs, 

 sufficiently safe and easy for ladies to descend to the foot of 

 the falls. 



When last on the Canada shore, I saw an old Indian who 

 spoke tolerably good English, and had a long chat with him 

 respecting the falls. He informed me, that, when he was a young 

 warrior, he was amongst those who gave Braddock his famous 

 defeat ; that at that time there was a small rocky island that laid 

 upon the very edge of the falls, at no great distance from Goat 

 Island, and which was very remarkable for having two trees 

 projecting over the falls. It is reasonable to believe that this 

 account is not untrue, as eight or ten large rocks, lying very near 



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