382 CATARACTS AND CASCADES- 
eight miles farther ; and the river is not_ suff^ic 
admit of navigation, till it reaches Queen s- 
- - - mne niiic’ 
side of the straits of Niagara, 
tlie falls. 
and 
To attempt an adequa<-e description of 
fruitless task . Their wondrous reality puts to n ^ , 
snblime ideas of antifr.pating fancy, and P j-,c )/ 
of an intelligent spectator, with such ent i ^lio 
can never be rightly conceived, uriless by t 
on some occasion, contemplated a similar 
FAILS OF THE MONTMOKENCV 
star 
the jesi' j 
** — ^ Oi ^ 
The Montmorency empties ibelf, at the disW 
eight miles north east of ° 
St Laurence, to tlie coast of which i ;ts 
from the elevated mountain on which^'t^^'^ ,o 
At a station 
ated mountain on wnicu 
called La Motte, situated on 
At a station caiiea ,:rfu.,e - 
extremity of a sloping ground, *ts waters d>^ 
into shaUow currents, ir‘errupted by 
them into foam, and accompanied '“'^LesS f;' 
which enliven the solitude and solemn jesui‘'*fi|'‘'‘ 
throughout the 
Farther down. 
sun'ounding forests and 
iU channel is bounded 
by fry 
• ■‘Oj >T. 
Farther down, its channel is ^nntrac^^^j 'J 
rocks, its breadth becoming extremely uo"J 
rapidity of its current proportionably “"=^1 
plLe called ' the natura steps’ there a.e .vlM 
cascades of ten or twelve feet. Ihese 
extremely regular, have been L prog^ff 4 
accession of waters the nver receives m s th« ^ 
breaking up of winter, by the ,<<4 
From tte middle of April to 
roll with increasing height and . ^ate 
impelled in their course, they >us‘uuu^ jr?? Z 
between the strata of the horizontal rock, ‘ , jj,i; j 
which are detached by the rushing violence 
Onthecastem side, thebank, which IS almos^.J^ ^ 
and fifty feet in height, is surmounted by tert>W 
south-west bank rises beyond the ^teps, 
precipice. On the opposite side, - 
of a singular shape, resembling the ruin 
wall. The trees by which the banks are 
