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draw nigh the fall, to endeavour with all their 
might to take wing and leave the water, but 
they cannot. In the months of September and 
OFober , fuch abundant quantities of dead wa- 
terfowl are found every morning below the 
Fall, on the fhore, that the garrifon of the fort 
for a long time live chiefly upon them ; betides 
the fowl, they find alfo feveral forts of dead 
fifh, alfo deer, bears, and other animals which 
have tried to crofs the water above the fall ; 
the larger animals are generally found broken 
to pieces. Juft below the fall the water is not 
rapid, but goes all in circles and whirls like a 
boiling pot ; which however doth not hinder the 
Indians going upon it in fmall canoes a fifhing ; 
but a little lower begins the fmaller fall. 
When you are above the fall, and look down, 
your head begins to turn : the French who have 
been here ioo times, will feldom venture to 
look down, without at the fame time keeping 
faft hold of fome tree with one hand. 
It was formerly thought impofiible for any 
body living to come at the Ifland that is in 
the middle of the fall : but an accident that 
happen’d 12 years ago, or thereabouts, made it 
appear otherwife. The hiftory is this. Two 
Indians of the Six Nations went out from 
Wiagara fort, to hunt upon an ifland that is 
in the middle of the river, or ftrait, above the 
great fall, on which there ufed to be abundance 
of deer. They took fome French brandy with 
them 
