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disaster upon before long. I thought I should 93 unclear myself much more safe if the wires were doubled? that held up the platform. After gazing in? what time I could afford. I then took a walk down to the whirlpool, three miles below the falls, On entering a gate at the head of a private way leading down to the River paid $ - - 12 1/2 through a piece of woods extending to the river, The Whirlpool is a grand and fearful abyss, bowing? {around? on the Canada side, surrounded by a high precipice covered with forest trees, encircling an area of several acres, for which of all others Whirlpool is the right name: I am informed that the debth has never been sounded. The movement of the water is grand and sublime, and the distance down, and the distance over, and the distance every way is most decietful, I saw some small trash and sticks of wood as I thought sailing about in the abyss below, the largest I thought about five or six feet long and six or eight inches diameter, I asked the guide if there were any mill logs among it, Yes you see two small logs together do you, I said yes. Well unclear[[{be?]] those logs are 23 feet long and 3 feet through at the butt. The scene is very interesting while some are gliding over the smooth water,