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90 decended a windeing stair case of one hundred steps, and along under Table Rock projecting thirty or forty feet, and on the left hand a steep declivity down to the edge of the water, formed by the fallen rocks from the arch above, and then along under the sheet of falling water as far as the termination rock. I have often heard of a jumping off place and I think this must be it. By a strong wind created by the headless plunge of the vast body of water the spray is driven up in our faces and all over us, and the drippings from the rock above down upon us constitutes a double stormy day, from which our oil cloth dress is hardly a sufficient protection, Let us get out of this place. So we return ascend the stair case and put off the dress pay $- - 12 1/2 take something to eat and drink if we chus and then? go. Passing along down on the Canada side I saw a piece of canvass fastened to some stakes with the following inscription, This markes the spot where Miss Martha Rugg of Lancaster Mss] lost her life by falling over the precipice while plucking a flower Augst 24-1844 at the age of