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Ontario, and running in an easterly direction, loses it- 

 self in the country towards the Seneca lake. The plain, 

 extending from its base northwardly to the shores of the 

 lake, and is between two and three hundred feet lower 

 than that extending from its top, south, to lake Erie. 



Note 54 — Page 73. 



Though five short miles ahead, 



All sound was hushed and every whisper dead. 



This will appear almost incredible to those who have 

 heard it asserted that the noise of the cataract is frequent- 

 ly heard at the distance of forty miles. Both these facts, 

 however are actually true, and depend entirely on tha 

 state of the atmosphere and current of the air. 



Note 55 — Page 74. 



Whence hurrying clouds of boiling smoke arose, &c. 



This train of black clouds extends along the heavens 

 in the direction in which the wind blows, as far as the 

 eye can reach, forming a very striking and majestic ap- 

 pearance. 



Note 5G— Page 76. 

 Till the tall ladder's tottering top appeared. 



This ladder was placed in an almost perpendicular po- 



