The scene which it presented was indeed singularly beautiful; since, without any of the wild, irregular sublimity of the lower falls, it combined all the regular elegancies which the fancy of a painter would select to form a beautiful waterfall.
The eye had scarcely been regaled with this charming prospect, when at the distance of half a mile Captain Lewis observed another of a similar kind.

To this he immediately hastened, and found a cascade stretching across the whole river for a quarter of a mile, with a descent of fourteen feet, though the perpendicular pitch was only six feet.

This, too, in any other neighborhood, would have been an object of great magnificence; but after what he had just seen, it became of secondary interest.

His curiosity being, however, awakened, he determined to go on, even should night overtake him, to the head of the falls.
"He therefore pursued the southwest course of the river, which was one constant succession of rapids and small cascades, at every one of which the bluffs grew lower, or the bed of the river became more on a level with the plains.

At the distance of two and one-half miles he arrived at another cataract, of twenty-six feet.