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fide of the river is nearly perpendicular, the 
weft fide more hoping. In former times a 
part of the rock at the Fall which is on the 
weft fide of the ifland, hung over in fuch a 
manner, that the water which fell perpendi- 
cularly from it, left a vacancy below, fo that 
people could go under between the rock and 
the water ; but the prominent part fome years 
fince broke off and fell down ; fo that there 
is now no poffibility of going between the 
falling water aud the rock, as the water now 
runs clofe to it all the way down. The 
breadth of the Fall, as it runs into a femicircle, 
is reckon’d to be about 6 Arpents. The ifland 
is in the middle of the Fall, and from it to 
each fide is almoft the fame breadth : the 
breadth of the ifland at its lower end is two 
thirds of an Arpent, or thereabouts. Below 
the Fall in the holes of the rocks, are great 
plenty of Eels, which the Indians and French 
catch with their hands without other means ; 
I fent down two Indian boys, who diredlly 
came up with about twenty fine ones. 
Every day, when the Sun fhines, you fee here 
from io o’clock in the morning to 2 in the 
afternoon, below the Fall, and under you, 
when you ftand at the fide over the Fall, a 
glorious rainbow and fometimes two rainbows, 
one within the other. 
I was 
