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When r ohjeded Hennepin\ Account of thofe Falls, to 
Monfieur Borajfawy he replied ^ That accordingly every- 
Body had depended upon it as right until the late 
Survey. Upon further Difcourfe he acknowledged, 
That below the Catarad for a great way, there were 
numbers of (mall Ledges, or Stairs crofs the River, 
that lower’d it flill more and more, till you come to a 
Level ; fo that if all the Defeents be put together, he 
does not know but the Difference of the Water above 
the Falls, and the Level below, may come up to 
Father Hennepin^ but the ftridt and proper Cataratft 
upon a perpendicular, is no more than twenty fix Fa- 
thom, or an hundred and fifty fix Foot, which yet 
is a prodigious Thing, and what the World I fuppofe 
cannot parallel, confidering the greatnefs of the River, 
for it is near a Quarter of an BngU^ Mile broad, and 
very deep Water. 
Several other Things Monfieur Boraff iw fet me right 
in, as to the Falls of Miagara. Particularly it has been 
faid. That the Catarad: makes fuch a prodigious noife, 
that People can’t hear one another fpeak, at fome 
Miles difiance, whereas he affirms, you may converfe 
together cloie by. 
1 have alfo heard it pofitively aflerted, That the 
Shoot of the River, when it comes to the Precipice, 
was with fuch a mighty force, that Men and Horfe 
might march under the Body of the River without 
being wet. This alfo he utterly denies, and fays the 
Water lalis in a manner right down. 
Wdiat he obferv’d farther to me was, 
That th:; Mifi or Shower fhis Word was La BrumO 
which the fails make, is fo extraordinary, as to be 
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