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efteemed one of the greateft curiofities in the 
World. When I came laft year from Quebec , 
you enquir’d of me feveral particulars concern- 
ing this fall ; and I told you what I heard of 
it in Canada , from feveral French gentlemen 
who had been there : but this was ftill all 
hearfay ; I could not affure you of the 
truth of it, becaufe I had not then feen it 
myfelf, and fo it could not fatisfy my own, 
much lefs your curiofity. Now, fince I have 
been on the fpot, it is in my power to give 
you a more perfebt and fatisfadlory defcription 
of it. 
After a fatiguing travel, firft on horfeback 
thro’ the country of the Six Indian Nations , 
to Ofwego , and from thence in a Canoe upon 
lake Ontario , I came on the 12th of Auguft 
in the evening to Niagara fort. The French 
there feemed much perplexed at my firft com- 
ing, imagining I was an English officer, 
who under pretext of feeing Niagara Falls, 
came with fome other view; but as foon as I 
fhew’d them my paffports, they chang’d their 
behaviour, and received me with the greateft 
civility. Niagara Fall is fix French leagues 
from Niagara Fort. You firft go three leagues 
by water up Niagara river, and then three 
leagues over the carrying place. As it was late 
when I arriv’d at the Fort, I could not the 
fame day go to the Fall, but I prepar’d myfelf 
to do it the next morning. The commandant 
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