. The falls of Niagara . 1721. After referring to the inaccurateaccounts of Hennepin and La Hontan, he says: For myown part, after having examined it on all sides, where itcould be viewed to the greatest advantage, I am inclinedto think we cannot allow it [the height] less than onehundred and forty or fifty feet. As to its figure, it isin the shape of a horseshoe, and it is about four hundredpaces in circumference. It is divided in two exactly inthe center by a very narrow island, half a quarter of aleague long. In relation to the noise of the fallingwater, he says: You can scarce hear it at M
. The falls of Niagara . 1721. After referring to the inaccurateaccounts of Hennepin and La Hontan, he says: For myown part, after having examined it on all sides, where itcould be viewed to the greatest advantage, I am inclinedto think we cannot allow it [the height] less than onehundred and forty or fifty feet. As to its figure, it isin the shape of a horseshoe, and it is about four hundredpaces in circumference. It is divided in two exactly inthe center by a very narrow island, half a quarter of aleague long. In relation to the noise of the fallingwater, he says: You can scarce hear it at M. deJoncaires [Fort Schlosser], and what you hear in thisplace [Lewiston] may possibly be the whirlpools, causedby the rocks which fill up the bed of the river as faras this. Neither Baron La Hontan nor M. Charlevoix speaksof the number of water-falls. But Father Hennepin,it will be remembered, mentions three, two of whichwere to the south and west of Goat Island. And theRev. Abbe Picquet, who visited the place in Luna Fall and Island in \Vinter. Opposite Iage ji. HISTORY. 11 seventy years after Father Hennepin, says (DocumentaryHistory, I., p. 283): This cascade is as prodigious byreason of its height and the quantity of water which fallsthere, as on account of the variety of its falls, which areto the number of six principal ones divided by a smallisland, Iqaving three to the north and three to the produce of themselves a singular symmetry andwonderful effect. The geological indications are that Goat Island onceembraced all the small islands lying near it, and alsothat it covered the whole of the rocky bar whichstretches up stream some hundred and fifty rods abovethe head of the present island. At that period, from thedepressions now visible in the rocky bed of the river,it would seem probable that the water cut channelsthrough the modern drift corresponding with thesedepressions. In that case there would then have been athird fall in the American channel, n
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