. The falls of Niagara . ut two hundred feet high. This grand fall issituated in the midst of magnificent scenery, and is sur-rounded by a fertile country. Another lesser Niagara is found in the north-east, inthe river St. INIaurice, the largest tributary of the , which falls into it from the north below ThreeRivers and about twenty-two miles above its mouth. Thefall — the Shawenegan — is the same height as Niagara,and while the width and depth of the river are not given,the volume of water pouring over the precipice is said tobe forty thousand feet per second, a supply sufficient t
. The falls of Niagara . ut two hundred feet high. This grand fall issituated in the midst of magnificent scenery, and is sur-rounded by a fertile country. Another lesser Niagara is found in the north-east, inthe river St. INIaurice, the largest tributary of the , which falls into it from the north below ThreeRivers and about twenty-two miles above its mouth. Thefall — the Shawenegan — is the same height as Niagara,and while the width and depth of the river are not given,the volume of water pouring over the precipice is said tobe forty thousand feet per second, a supply sufficient toproduce a grand and impressive cataract. Eight miles below Quebec the river Montmorency dis- I/O NIAGARA. charges directly into the St. Lawrence, over a cHff twohundred and fifty feet high, with a width of one hundredand fifty feet. The falHng foam-flecked sheet presentsa beautiful and picturesque appearance. It is unique asbeing the only known instance in which a tributary fallsperpendicularly into the main Opposite pai;e 171 Nevada Falls CHAPTER XX. Tequendama —Kaiteeur — Paulo Affonso—Keel-fos—Riunkan-fos—Sarp-fos — Staubbach—Zambesi or Victoria — Murchison — Cavery — Schaff-hausen. IN South America is the remarkable fall of Tequen-dama, on the river Bogota, which, at this point, is onlyone hundred and forty feet wide, and is divided into nu-merous narrow and deep channels which finally unite intwo of nearly the same width, and make a perpendicularplunge of six hundred and fifty feet to the plain cataract, says Humboldt, forms an assemblageof everything that is sublimely picturesque in beautifulscenery. It is not one of the highest falls, but therescarcely exists a cataract which, from so lofty a height,precipitates so voluminous a mass of water. The body,when it first parts from its bed, forms a broad arch ofglassy appearance; a little lower down it assumes a fleecyform, and ultimately, in its progress, it shoots forth inmillions
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