The whole height of the falls is thirty-seven feet, eight inches, in a distance of twelve hundred yards.
A portage of four hundred and fifty yards was made around the first fall, which is twenty feet high, and perpendicular.
By means of lines the canoes were let down the rapids below.
At the season ...
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