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Fall crofies it, not in a right line; but form- 
ing almoft the figure of a femicircle or horfe 
flioe. Above the Fall, in the middle of the 
river is an illand, lying alfo S. S. E. and 
N. N. W. or parallel with the fides of the 
river; its length is about 7 or 8 french arpents 
(an arpent being 180 feet.) the lower end of 
this Illand is juft at the perpendicular edge of 
the Fall. On both fides of this illand runs all 
the water that comes from the lakes of Canada , 
viz. Lake Superior , lake Mifchigan , lake 
Huron , and lake Erie, which you know are 
rather fimall leas than lakes, and have befides 
a great many large rivers that empty their 
water in them, of which the greateft part comes 
down this Niagara Fall. Before the water 
comes to this illand, it runs but llowly, com- 
par’d with its motion when it approaches 
the illand, where it grows the moll rapid 
water in the World, runing with a [furprizing 
fwiftnefs before it comes to the Fall; it is 
quite white, and in many places is thrown 
high up into the air ! The greateft and ftrongeft 
battoes would here in a moment be turn’d 
over and over. The water that goes down on 
the weft fide of the illand, is more rapid, in 
greater abundance, whiter, and leems almoft 
to outdo an arrow in fwiftnefs. When you arc 
at the Fall, and look up the river, you may 
fee, that the river above the Fall is every 
where exceeding fteep, almoft a$ the fide of a 
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