in rags.

strength to make another effort to extricate herself from this terrible situation; but she found herself without shoes, and her clothes were torn She proceeded forward with all the speed her weak state would admit; and in a short time, to her great joy, she found a spring of water. For eight days she wandered in the woods, living upon wild fruits, and the eggs of wild fowls; but her throat was so contracted by the want of food, that she could scarcely swallow any thing. The agitation of her mind had such an effect on her body, that her hair became gray.

If a person were to read in a story-book written to amuse, that a delicate woman, accustomed to the enjoyment of all the luxuries of life, had been plunged into a river, and drawn out of it half drowned; that she had entered into a wood with seven other persons, without a road to conduct her, and travelled in it for several weeks; that she had lost her way, had endured hunger, thirst, and fatigue, and had seen her two brothers and all her attendants, who were much stronger than herself, expire before her eyes; that she had survived all these misfortunes, regained her strength, and travelled in the woods, covered with rags, till Providence sent her unexpected assistance; the author of such a tale would be accused of describing impossibilities.

On the morning of the ninth day Madame Godin found herself on the banks of the river Bobonasa, and she was immediately alarmed by a noise, apparently at a small distance from her.

In the first emotion of her fear she fled back into the wood to conceal herself; but soon considering that nothing worse could happen to her than she had already experienced, she regained the river side, and perceived two Indians pushing a canoe into the water. She went up to them and implored their assistance in conducting her to Andoas. The humane Indians, touched with her situation, offered to take her into their canoe, and she soon arrived at the place of her destination, where she soon found the relief she expected her health was soon restored, and she easily found means to join her husband.

THIS amazing fall of water is made by the river St. Lawrence, in its passage from Lake Erie into the Lake Ontario. The St. Lawrence is one of the largest rivers in the world, and yet the whole of its waters are discharged in this place by a fall of a hundred and fifty feet perpendicular. It is not easy to bring the imagination to correspond with the greatness of the scene. A river extremely deep and rapid, serving to drain the waters of almost all North America, which flow into the Atlantic Ocean, is here poured precipitately down a ledge of rocks, which runs, like a wall, across the whole bed of its stream. The river, a little above, is nearly three-quarters of a mile broad: and the rocks, where it grows narrower, are twelve

hundred yards over. Their direction is not straight across, but hollowing inwards like a horse-shoe, so that the cataract, which bends to the shape of the obstacle, rounding inwards, presents a kind of theatre, the most tremendous in nature. Just in the middle of this circular wall of waters, a little island, that has braved the fury of the current, presents one of its points, and divides the stream at top into two parts, but they unite again before they reach the bottom. The noise of the fall is heard at the distance of several leagues, and the fury of the waters at the termination of the fall is inconceivable. The dashing produces a mist that rises to the very clouds, and forms a most beautiful rainbow when the sun shines. It will be readily supposed that such a cataract

altogether interrupts the navigation of the stream. In fact, the merchandize which is sent into the interior of North America is obliged to be landed at some distance below the falls, and thence carried across the country to the nearest navigable part of the river above them.

The whole breadth of the precipice is nearly three-quarters of a mile, and the quantity of water carried down the falls is said to be 2,688,000 hogsheads-full in a minute. The current is here, and for some distance higher up the river, so rapid, that even fishes are not able to stand its force; they are always dashed to pieces in the fall, and the shore below is covered with their dead bodies, which have been subsequently washed up.

Among the numerous stories current in the country, relating to this wonderful cataract, there is one concerning the fate of an Indian, the truth of which is unquestionable. This unfortunate creature, intoxicated with spirits, had laid himself down to sleep at the bottom of his canoe, which was fastened to the beach, at the distance of some miles above the falls. By some accident the rope loosened, and the canoe of course went adrift. It quickly floated away with the stream, and in a few minutes was carried down the rapids, where the channel becomes narrower, and the bed of the river is covered with rocks. Here it was distinctly seen by several persons standing on the shore, whose attention had been caught by the appearance of a canoe in such a dangerous part of the river. The violent motion of the boat soon awoke the Indian ;