A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . for when the wind blows out of the south, their dismal roaring may be STATES AND CAROLINA. 115 heard more than 15 leag-iies off. The River Niagara, havinjj thrown itself down this in-credible precipice, continues its impetuous course, for two leagues together, to tlie great rockabove mentioned, with an inexpressible rapidity ; but, having passed that, its impetuosityrelents, gliding along more gently, for other two leagues, till it arrives, at the Lake the Great Fall unto this rock, which is to the west of the riv
A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . for when the wind blows out of the south, their dismal roaring may be STATES AND CAROLINA. 115 heard more than 15 leag-iies off. The River Niagara, havinjj thrown itself down this in-credible precipice, continues its impetuous course, for two leagues together, to tlie great rockabove mentioned, with an inexpressible rapidity ; but, having passed that, its impetuosityrelents, gliding along more gently, for other two leagues, till it arrives, at the Lake the Great Fall unto this rock, which is to the west of the river, the two brinks of it areso prodigious high, that it would make one tremble to look steadily upon the water, rollino-along with a rapidity not to be imagined. Were it not for this vast cataract, which interruptsnavigation, they might sail with barks, or greater vessels, more than 450 leagues, crossino- theLake of Hurons, and roachnig even to the farther end of Lake Illinois; which two lakes, wemay easily say, are little seas of fresh NORTH CAROLINA ,s one of the Southern States of the American republic, and one ofthe thirteen wluch originally adopted the federal constitution. It was included in the extensive region granted, in 1584, by Queen Elizabeth, to Sir Walter Raleigh, under the .Generalname of J ^rginia. Its earliest permanent settlement was commenced about the year 1( by acompany of fugitives from religious persecution in the more northern part of Virginia, whoe^tab-hshed themselves at a spot near Albemarle Sound. In 10(!I, another bodv of En<.lish Massachusetts, settled on the shores of Cape Fear River. The colonists suffered manyImrdslups and much trouble for want of a recognized independent representative at the courtof the parent country. This they obtained in 1667; but, not flu from this date, the provincecomprehending the country now forming both North and South Carolina had been granted toLord Clarendon and others, wlio undertook
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