it commands a view of Lake Erie ; and the road from this to the Falls is along the banks of Niagara River, a very interesting ride. The river is in no place less than a mile over and the picture is enlivened by a variety of landscapes. Niagara River is the only outlet of Lake Superior, and all those immense lakes that afford, from the falls, an uninterrupted navigation of near two thousand miles to the westward. As you approach Chippaway, a military station two miles above the falls, the»rapidity of the river increases, bounding to a great height where it meets with resistance from the inequality of the surface ; and this vast body of water at last rushes over a precipice of one hundred and seventy feet. The falls can be viewed from several different places : but they are seen to most advantage below. You can with safety, approach the very edge of the fall, and may even go some distance between the sheet of falling water and the precipice ; but this experiment requires caution ; the footing is unequal and slippery ; and blasts of condensed air rush out with such violence as to deprive you, for some moments of the power of breathing. From the falls to Queens-Town, the nearest place to which shipping approach the falls, the river is confined within a chasm in the rocks, one hundred and fifty feet deep, and to all appearance cut out by the force of the water. Queens- Town is a neat village, and has all the appearance of a sea-port : it is not uncommon to see at that place several brigs of one hundred tons burthen, and many smaller vessels. The territory opposite to Queens-Town, on the east side, is a reservation belonging to the State of New-York, which the Legislature directed the Surveyor-General to lay out into small lots, for the accommodation of settlers.