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Erie, well acquainted in every respect with 
that body of water, viz. that where Lake 
Erie, towards its eastern extremity is two 
miles and an half wide, the water is six feet 
deep, and the current runs at the rate of two 
knots in an hour ; but Niagara River, between 
this part of Lake Erie and the falls receives the 
waters of several large creeks, the quantity 
carried down the falls must therefore be great¬ 
er than the foregoing computation makes it 
to be ; if we say that six hundred and seven ty*- 
two thousand tons of water are precipitated 
down the falls every minute, the quantity 
will not probably be much over-rated. 
To return now to the Table Rock, situated 
on the British side of the river, and on the 
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verge of the Horse-shoe Fall. Here the spec- 
tator has an unobstructed view of the tre¬ 
mendous rapids above the falls, and of the 
circumjacent shores covered with thick woods; 
of the Horse-shoe Fall, some yards below him; 
of Fort Schloper Fall, at a distance to the 
left; and of the frightful gulph beneath, into 
which, if he has but courage to approach to 
the exposed edge of the rock, he may look 
down- perpendicularly. The astonishment ex¬ 
cited in the mind of the spectator by the vast¬ 
ness of the different objects which he contem¬ 
plates from hence is great indeed, and few 
