124 TRAVELS THROUGH LOWER CANADA ! 
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trees did not fall altogether. The river before 
you here is somewhat more than a quarter of 
a mile wide; and on the opposite side of it a 
little to the right,. the Fort Schloper Fall is 
seen to great advantage ; what you see of the 
Horse shoe Fall also appears in a very favour¬ 
able point of view; the projecting cliff con-* 
ceals nearly one half of it. The Fort Schloper 
Fall is skirted at the bottom by milk white foam* 
which ascends in thick volumes from the rocks; 
but it is not seen to rise above the fall like a 
cloud of smoke* as is the case with the Horse¬ 
shoe Fall; nevertheless the spray is so con¬ 
siderable* that it descends on the opposite side 
of the river* at the foot of Simcoe’s Ladder* 
like rain, 
Having reached the margin of the river* we 
proceeded towards the Great Fall* along the 
strand* which for a considerable part of the way 
thither consists of horizontal beds of limestone 
rock* covered with gravel* except* indeed*where 
great piles of stones have fallen from the 
sides of the cliff. These horizontal beds of 
rock* in some places* extend very far into the 
river* forming points which break the force of 
the current* and occasion strong eddies along 
particular parts of the shore. Here great num¬ 
bers of the bodies of fishes* squirrels* foxes* and 
various other animals* that* unable to stem the 
current of the river above the falls* have been 
