Looking up the river, the view to the west seems inclosed by a long line of trees, which, in the distance, appear to stand in the water.

Thence the vast stream sweeps boldly into the south, and with a rush discharges down the rapids, and straight over the line of precipice, in a vast tumultuous greyish-drab torrent which speedily emerges into comparatively still water below.

The rock here is an exceedingly hard, mottled limestone, resembling the stone at St.Andrew's Rapids on Red River.

Where exposed it is pitted or bitten into by the endless action of wind and water, and lies in thick layers, forming an irregular dyke all along the shore, over the surface of which passes the portage, some forty yards in length.

Though short, it is a nasty one, running along a shelf of rock into which great gaps have been gored by the torrent.