Vi* 
falls op the MISSOURI. 
C* *'* Fa.scacle of eight 
V? rather of .. ™ 
tj.| sif ^ ‘filing into the Missouri it preserves its colour 
V| ■t'icrp fForo this fountain the river descends 
rapidity for the distance of three thousand 
ii'Hft ‘C(l j ? 1 • 1 .1 
3S5 
feet. It is of the 
a blui.sh cast j and 
thirty-one feet, during which the estima- 
pQ ” hundred and twenty-seven feet, the 
IS 
two 
five feet : fi'om this, for a distance of two 
river 
fall h^et seven inches, including a perpendi- 
,.1'e six feet seven inches. The river has now be- 
Of 
Ptes 
into 
feet. 
a space of one thousand four hundred 
and here forms a grand cataract, by 
S Ute j rock, the whole distance across the 
of forty- s(ji-en feet eight inches : after 
S||j'* des„/®'f> the Mi.ssouri then proceeds with an esii- 
fhree feet, till at the dist.ance of si.xteen 
■lii, ®*ghty-thrce feet it again is precipitated down 
C tlip of nineteen ' feet perpendicular ; below 
of a deep ravine, is a fall of five feet, 
the distance of sixteen thousand and five 
for 
■ards 
,ot three miles) the descent is much more 
S(lf'''''o le,!i'i*”? more than ten feet, and then succeeds a 
for the space of two thousand 
>irty-seven feet (more than half a mile,) with 
desr - . ^ 
I*'!? .p .®®ot of three feet, making a bend towards 
%dre(j ^fionce it descends, during seven tliousand 
t,Vi it twenty feet, about eighteen feet and a 
® perpendicular fall of two feet, which 
in ‘'fifed and eighty-five feet beyond the great 
fiistaj)^P'°‘'®lffiig which it descends thirteen feet, 
'luffed about six hundred feet, and gathering 
pf^dd f confined channel, which is only eight 
^'^■^|.Jl‘eig^J°‘ty feet wide, rushes over the fall to the 
three quarters of an inch. 
t|lv )i>ed ; the rocks, and losing itself in foam, it 
'IK' 
V''*'ild*''‘'® 3 fiefi two hundred and 
‘* 1 ^. and **' width ; it continues for five thousand 
V**: d ‘c the entrance of a run or deep 
Vts-'^^*t’e ® fi'fi of three feet, which, joined 
'* tljj ''t fegt river during that course, makes the 
® '■^OUsg fi goes on, the descent within the 
“fi nine hundred and sixty feet is oni^ fout 
