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knew everything worth notice of the Fall, 
better than any other perfon, to go with 
me, and fhew and tell me whatever he knew, 
A little before we came to the carrying-place, 
the water of Niagara River grew fo rapid, 
that four men in a light birch canoe, had 
much difficulty to get up thither. Canoes can 
go half a league above the beginning of the 
carrying-place, tho’ they muft work against 
a water extremely rapid ; but higher up it is 
quite impoffible, the whole courfe of the 
water for two leagues and a half up to the great 
Fall, being a feries of fmaller Falls, one under 
another, in which the greatest canoe or Battoe 
would in a moment be turn’d upfide down. 
We went afhore therefore, and walk’d over 
the carrying-place, having befides the high 
and steep fide of the river, two great hills to 
afcend one above the other. Here on the 
carrying-place I saw about 200 Indians , moft 
of them belonging to the Six Nation , bufy in 
carrying packs of furs, chiefly of deer and 
bear, over the carrying-place. You would 
be furpriz’d to fee what abundance of thefe 
things are brought every day over this place. 
An Indian gets 20 pence for every pack he 
carries over, the diftance being three leagues. 
Half an hour paft 10 in the morning we came 
to the great Fall, which I found as follows, 
to the river (or rather ftrait,) runs here from 
S. S. K. to N. N. W. and the rocks of the great 
Fall 
