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I was fo happy to be at the Fall on a fine 
clear day, and it was with great delight I 
view’d this rainbow, which had almoft all 
the colours you fee in a rainbow in the air. 
The more vapours, the brighter and clearer 
is the rainbow. I faw it on the Eaft fide of 
the Fall in the bottom under the place where 
I ftood, but above the water. When the 
wind carries the vapours from that place, the 
rainbow is gone, but appears again as foon as 
new vapours come. From the Fall to the 
landing above the Fall, where the canoes from 
Lake Erie put on fhore, (or from the Fall to 
the upper end of the carrying-place) is half a 
mile. Lower the canoes dare not come, left 
they fhould be obliged to try the fate of the 
two Indians , and perhaps with lefs fuccefs. 
They have often found below the Fall pieces 
of human bodies, perhaps of drunken Indians , 
that have unhappily came down the Fall. I 
was told at Ofwego , that in October , or there- 
abouts, fuch plenty of feathers are to be found 
here below the Fall, that a man in a days 
time can gather enough of them for feveral 
beds, which feathers they faid came off the 
birds kill’d at the Fall. I ask’d the French , 
if this was true ? They told me they had never 
feen any fuch thing ; but that if the feathers 
were pick’d off the dead birds, there might 
be fuch a quantity. The French told me, 
they had often thrown whole great trees into 
the 
