This young girl spoke so well to her Uncle, though she had but little knowledge of Religion that he promised to repair to La Presentation early the following spring, and that he hoped to gain over also seven other

Twenty-five leagues from Niagara he visited the River

cabins of Senecas of which he was chief.

Gascouchagou

'

The young Indians jumped into the midst

where he met a number of Rattlesnakes.

of them and killed forty-two without having been bitten by any.

He next visited the Falls of this River.

The first which appear in sight in ascending resemble

much the great Cascade at Saint Cloud, except that they have not been ornamented and do not seem so high, but they possess natural beauties which render them

of a mile higher, are less considerable, yet are remarkable.

very curious. The second, a quarter The third, also a quarter of a league

higher, has beauties truly admirable by its curtains and falls which form also, as at Niagara, a charming proportion and variety.

They may be one hundred and some feet high. 2

In the intervals between the falls, there are a hundred little cascades which present likewise a curious spectacle ; and if the altitudes of each chute were joined together, and

would, perhaps, be four hundred feet

;

they made but one as at Niagara, the height

but there is four times less water than at the Niagara Fall

which will cause the latter to pass, for ever, as a Wonder perhaps unique in the World. The English to throw disorder into this new levy sent a good deal of brandy. Some savages did, He therefore desired much that Choeguen in fact get drunk whom M. Picquet could not bring along. were destroyed and the English prevented rebuilding it and in order that we should be absolutely masters of the south side of Lake Ontario, he proposed erecting a Fort near there at the bay of the Cayugas 3 which would make a very good harbour and furnish very fine anchorage.