ing would be, the island at the falls ; or applied to the falls, The would class them as small compared with Niagara.

term is Mahican, and is applied in another form to a district in

New Hampshire, the Coos country. Van der Donck says of the falls, as they appeared in 1656 u The water glides over :

the falls as smooth as if it ran over an even wall and fell over the same.

The precipice is formed of firm blue rock

;

near

by and below the falls there stand several rocks, which appear splendid in the water rising above it like high turf-heaps, appa rently from eight, sixteen, to thirty feet high ; very delightful to The place is well calculated to exalt the fancy of the the eye. poets.

The ancient fabulous writers would, if they had been

here, have

exalted those works

of nature, by the force of

imagination, into the most artful and elegant descriptive illu The waters descend rapidly downwards from the falls, sions.

over a stony bottom, skipping, foaming and whirling boisterously about the distance of a gun-shot or more."

Ante, p. 205.

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9, igth line, for "hospitality, so, read hospitality.

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9th line, for make, read also.

27, zist line, for sacrifice and fires, read sacrificial fires.

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27, 2gth line, for were, read where.

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