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Canada, a flu red me, and gave it me alio under 
his hand, that 137 Feet was precilely the 
height of it- and all the French Gentlemen 
that were prelent with me at the Fall, did 
agree with him, without the leaft contradi&ion : 
it is true, thole who have try’d to meafure it 
with a line, find it lbmetimes 140, fometimes 
150 feet, and lbmetimes more ; but the realbn 
is, it cannot that way be mealured with any 
certainty, the water carrying away the 
Line.- When the water is come down to 
the bottom of the rock of the Fall, it jumps 
back to a very great heighth in the air - in 
other places it is white as milk or fnow, and 
all in motion like a boiling chaldron. You 
may remember, to what a great diftance He- 
nepn fays the nolle of this great Fall may be 
heard. Ail the gentlemen who were with 
me, agreed, that the iart heft one can hear if, 
is 1 5*" leagues, and that very feldom. When 
the air is quite calm, you can hear it to Nia- 
gara Fort • but feldom at other times, becaufe 
when the wind blows, the waves of Lake 
Ontario make too much node there againft 
the Shore. They inform’d me, that when 
they hear at the Fort the noife of the Fall, 
louder than ordinary, they are fare a iNoith 
Fall Wind will follow, which never fails: 
this leems wonderful, as the Fali is South Weft 
from the Fort : and one would imagine it to 
be rather a fign of a contrary wind. Some- 
times, 
