THE NIAGARA WHIRLPOOL.
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This whirlpool which is several miles below the iall IS of those scenes which are too grand for descri ption Incidents of accidents happening there best convey idea of the horrors of that dreadful abyss. The whirlpool is a large deep basin, in which the waters of the mighty St Law renee revolve in one perpetual whirl, caused by their being obstructed by angle in the steep and dreary banks which overhang this dreadful place. The whirlpool, like the falls, has frequently ed the loss of life: one instance of which I will here relate

 The blacksmith had a son, a fine youth of whom he was exceedingly proud, and the lad day went down to the whirlpool, and the current prov. ing too strong for him he carried into the whirl. His poor distracted mother sat on the bank hours and days, and beheld the body of her own darling child carried round in circle by the wa. ters, sometimes disappearing for time, and then coming up and revolving on the surface of his watery grave; and. thus continuing for several days, no human aid being available to obtain his remains. An acquaintance who resides at the whirlpool, informed me that m the course of five s:y days the bodies which get into this dismal caul dron are carried down the river. It is usual for persons rafting between the falls and the whirlpool, to get off the raft before getting 10 the basin, first placing the raft in such poslt!o may best ena- he 1t to float down the stream without being car ried into the whirl. On one occasion, however, one of the ratsmen refused to leave the ra(t-he was not afraid. all would go safe-enIreay was un- d'a'ii"S' all" '"e '"''' w.t.! '"e '' o'' 'i0"u l strong man upon it, made its way downwards, and was soon drawn within the fatal circle; around which, for three days and three nights 1t contin- ned to revove, all the efforts of thousand anxious spectators proved uaayaililg. The continued and sckening motion he underwent robbed the poor sufferer of all power to cat--sleep he could not-a dreadful death was before his eyes, much the more terrible. that it was protracted night after | night in such place. Al last man was found who ventured into the Whir, as far he could

 with hopes of life, strong rope being tied round | his middle, one end of which was on shore He carried with kim line to throw to the raft-suc. ceeded; the s51nized sufferer fastened it to the raft

 and in this way he was drawn ashore, and his life | preserved.