Not even a fishing-boat crossed the path of the "Terror." Even the two destroyers would soon be obliged to pause in their pursuit, if we continued our mad rush through these dangerous waters.
I have said that the Niagara River flows between New York and Canada.
Its width, of about three quarters of a mile, narrows as it approaches the falls.

Its length, from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, is about fifteen leagues.

It flows in a northerly direction, until it empties the waters of Lake Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie into Ontario, the last lake of this mighty chain.

The celebrated falls, which occur in the midst of this great river have a height of over a hundred and fifty feet.

They are called sometimes the Horse-shoe Falls, because they curve inward like the iron shoe.