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knew every thing worth notice of the Fall, 
better than any other perfon, to go with 
me, and Ihew and tell me whatever he knew. 
A little before we came to the carrying-place, 
the water of Niagara River grew lo rapid, 
that four men in a light birch canoe, had 
much difficulty to get up thither. Canoes can 
go half a league above the beginning of the 
carrying-place, tho’ they mull work againft 
a water extremely rapid • but higher up it is 
quite impoffible, the whole courle of the 
water for two leagues and a half up to the great 
Fall, being a leries of fmaller Falls, one under 
another, in which the greatelt canoe or Battoe 
would in a moment be turn’d upfide down. 
We went afhore therefore, and walk’d over 
the carrying-place, having bcfides the high 
and fteep fide of the river, two great hills to 
afcend one above the other. Here on the 
carrying-place I faw above aoo Indians , moft 
of them belonging to the Six Nations, buly in 
carrying packs of furs, chiefly of deer and 
bear, over the carrying-place. You would 
be furpriz’d to lee what abundance of thele 
things are brought every day over this place. 
An Indian gets 20 pence for ever pack he 
carries over, the diftance being three leagues. 
Half an hour pafl: 10 in the morning we came 
to the great Fall, which I found as follows, 
to the river (or rather flrait,)runs here from 
S. S. E. to N. N. W and the rocks of the preat 
Fall 
