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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 
faid, 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 abovementioned. From the Place where 
the water falls, there rife abundance of vapours, 
like the greateft and thickeft frnoak, 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 
3^oung Frenchmen to go down, to bring me 
from the fide of the Fall at the bottom, fome 
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 Baft fide of the Bake 
Ontario , a great many leagues from the Fall, 
you 
