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times, ’tis faid, the Fall makes a much greater 
noife than at other times ; and this is look’d up- 
on as a certain mark of approaching bad wea- 
ther, or rain ; the Indians here hold it always 
for a fure fign. When I was there, it did not 
make an extraordinary great noife : juft by 
the Fall, we could eafily hear what each other V 
laid, without fpeaking much louder than com- 
mon when converfing in other places. I do 
not know how others have found fo great a 
noife here, perhaps it was at certain times, 
as abovementioncd. From the Place where 
the water falls, there rile abundance of vapours, 
like the greateft and thickeft fmoak, fome- 
times more, fometimes lefs: thefe vapours 
rife? high in the air when it is calm, but are 
difpers’d by the wind when it blows hard. \ 
If you go nigh to this vapour or fog, or if 
the wind blows it on you, it is fo penetrat- 
ing, that in a few minutes you will be as wet 
as if you had been under water. I got two 
young Frenchmen to go down, to bring me 
from the fide of the Fall at the bottom, lome 
of each of the feveral kinds of herbs , ftones 
and fhells they fhould find there; they re- 
turned in a few minutes, and I really thought 
they had fallen into the water : they were 
obliged to ftrip themfelves quite naked, and 
hang their clothes in the fun to dry. When 
you are on the other Eaft fide of the Lake 
Ontario , a great many leagues from the Fall, 
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