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hill. When all this water comes to the very 
Fall, there it throws itlelf down perpen- 
dicular ! It is beyond all belief the furprize 
when you lee this ! I cannot with words, 
exprelshow amazing.it is! You cannot fee 
it without being, quite terrified ; to behold 
lb vaft a quantity of water falling headlong 
from a lurprifing height ! I doubt not 
but you have a defire to learn the exaft 
height of this great Fall. Father Hennepin, 
fuppoles it 600 Feet 'perpendicular ; but 
he has gained little credit ‘in Canada ; the 
name of honour they give hini' there, is un 
grand Merit cur, or The great Liar ; he writes 
of what he law in places where he never was. 
tis true he law this Fall .• but as it is the way 
of fome travellers to magnify every thing, lo 
has he done with regard to the fall of Nia- 
gara. This humour of travellers, has occa- 
fioned me many difappointments in my tra- 
vels, having leldom been fo happy as to find 
the wonderful things that had been related by 
others. For n:y prarf, who am not fond of 
the Marvellous, I like to fee things juft as 
they are, and fo to relate them. Since Father 
Hennepin’ s time, this Fall by all the accounts 
that have been given of it, has grown lefs and 
lefs ; and thole who have mca lur’d it with 
mathematical infhumersts find the perpendi- 
cular fall of the water to he cxadlly / 37 f cc! - f 
Mooli. Mordndrier , the king’s engineer in 
Canada , 
