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II IS terrible place, and once is t, there ;s no egress except at the lower end oft. Some Spaniards unwittingly entered it once ia canoe, and were carried violently down it about forty miles. There they fortunate ly reached an eddy, produced by bend in the sides of the canon. stopped the canoe. and climbed up tine sides oi' tfe canon. which were therc less precipitons than usual, leaving canoe, beaver, guns, &c. all ln the canon to find way through it.

 Il was on the heads of the Del Norte. that General Pike. then lieutenant. was taken by the Mcxicans. Has it ever been satisfactorily known why he was there? think not. lie could mol haze been mistaken n fhc sirer. He knew it not to be inc Ar- kansas, and he knew himself 10 be in the Mexican territory. Was he not seeking place for the army of Aaron Burr to enter and suhdue Mexico? He was no traitor, knowi aud neither, in my opinion, was aa- ron Burr. Neither ever aimed to raise n hand against our own country. find some proof of Pike's intentions in his book.

 To be Continued.