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The current continues rapid to the foot of the Grand 

 Falls, and high rock exposures commence on the pre- 

 cipitous banks three miles below them. These gradually 

 assume the form of mural cliffs, capped with drift, in- 

 creasing in altitude until they attain at the foot of the 

 Grand Falls, the height of about 160 feet on the left bank, 

 while on the opposite side of the river the mountain 



Deeharges cles Paresseux. 



portage path winds round the steep hill side of a bold 

 projecting escarpment, 91 feet in altitude, and nearly half 

 a mile from the falls. 



At our camp, seven miles below the Grand or Ka-ka- 

 beka Falls (cleft rock) as they are termed, the level of the 

 river was estimated to be 40 feet above Lake Superior, 

 and the foot of the falls 16 feet higher. The Grand Falls 

 themselves were found by leveling to have an altitude of 

 119-05 feet, and involved a portage of 62 chains or three 

 quarters of a mile. They are distant from the mouth of 

 the river by its windings about 30 miles, and in an air 

 line 17 miles. 



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