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1835. just enough consistency fo descend in various-sized and
Zr. &, hardly distinguishable streams, whilst here and there on
of these foaming volumes encounters a projecting rock in it?
descent, which forces it back in heavy spray into the still
descending torrent above; thus giving indescribable beauty
and variety to the scene. In the afternoon I crossed the
river below the falls, and visited Goat’s Inland. At the foot
the staircase there is a view of the Ameyican fall at a poid!
of rock near the bottom of the cascades, terrific beyond ect
ception, and totally opposite to the effect of the Horse-shof
Fall as seen from Table Rock. I ascended the stairs and
passed over the bridge to Goat’s Island. The view from th
platform overhanging the Horse-shoe Fall, when you look
right down into the abyss, and are standing immediatel]
over the descending water, is horrible. I do not thik
people would take any pleasure in being placed in phe
fearful position, unless others were looking on, or unless for
the vain gratification of talking about it. In the evening
again looked at the Horse-shoe Fall from Table Rock unt
dark—oh, for an English twilight! The effect of this fall
improved by the water which flows over the ledge being o
very different depths, from two to twenty feet, which 0!
course causes the water to flow more or less in a mass, &
that in one part ib descends nearly half way in a blue, 15°
broken sheet, whilst not far off it is scattered into the whites
foam almost as soon as it has passed the edge of the rock
The water for several hundred yards below the fall is #
white as drift snow—not a mere white froth, but wherev?
it is disturbed it shows nothing but a white milk-like etfe®
anlike any water I ever saw.” ®

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« In the morning I went in a coach with Messrs. Cunninf
pam and Church, and Henry, to see the whirlpool three mil®
$ To & (., June 21, 1835.