PROSPECTS. 
Ill 
clothed from the summit to the base, the tops 
of the houses of Queenstown, and in front 
of the village, the ships moored in the river; 
the ships are at least two hundred feet below 
you, and their masts appear like slender reeds 
peeping up amidst the thick foliage of the 
trees. Carrying your eye forward, you may 
trace the river in all its windings, and finally 
see it disembogue into Lake Ontario, between 
the town and the fort: the lake itself termi¬ 
nates your view in this direction, except 
merely at one part of the horizon, where you 
just get a glimpse of the blue hills of Toronto. 
The shore of the river, on the right hand, 
remains in its natural state, covered with one 
continued forest; but on the opposite side the 
country is interspersed with cultivated fields, 
and neat farm houses down to the water’s edge. 
The country beyond the hills is much less 
cleared than that which lies towards the town 
of Niagara, on the navigable part of the 
river. 
From the sudden change of the face of the 
country in the neighbourhood of Queenstown, 
and the equally sudden change in the river 
with respect to its breadth, depth, and current, 
conjectures have been formed, that the great 
falls of the river must originally have been 
situated at the spot where the waters are so 
abruptly contracted between the hills; and 
