ISO "TRAVELS THROUGH LOWER CANADA!' 
gara were originally situated at Queenstown; 
and indeed the more pains you take to exa¬ 
mine the course of the river from the present 
falls downward^ the -more reason is there to 
imagine that such a conjecture is well found¬ 
ed. From the precipice ^nearly down to 
Queenstown; the bed of the river is strewed 
with large rocks; and the banks are broken 
and rugged; circumstances which plainly de¬ 
note that some great disruption has taken 
place along this part of the river; and we. 
need be at no loss to account for it, as 
there are evident marks of the action of wa¬ 
ter upon the sides of the banks; and consi¬ 
derably above tbeir present bases. Now the 
river has never been known to rise near these 
marks during the greatest floods; it is plainly 
therefore; that its bed must have been once 
much more elevated than it is at present. 
Below Queenstown; however; there are no 
traces on the banks to lead us to imagine that 
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the level of the water was ever much higher 
there than it is now. The sudden increase 
of the depth of the river just below the hills 
at Queenstown; and its sudden expansion there 
at the same time; seem to indicate that the 
w aters must for a great length of time have 
fallen from the top of the hills/and thus have 
formed that extensive deep basin below the 
y ill age. In the river; a mile or two above 
