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Canada , affured me, and gave it me alfo under 
his hand, that 137 Feet was precifely the 
height of it ; and all the French Gentlemen 
that were prefent with me at the Fall, did 
agree with him, without the leaft contradiction : 
it is true, thofe who have try’d to meafure it 
with a line, find it fometimes 140, fometimes 
1 50 feet, and fometimes more ; but the reafon 
is, it cannot that way be meafured with any 
certainty, the water carrying away the 
Fine. 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- 
nepin fays the noife of this great Fall may be 
heard. All the gentlemen who were with 
me, agreed, that the fartheft one can hear it, 
is 15 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 Fake 
Ontario make too much noife 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 fure a North 
Baft Wind will follow, which never fails : 
this feems wonderful, as the Fall is South Weft 
from the Fort : and one would imagine it to 
be rather a fign of a contrary wind. Some- 
times, 
