At about the same distance from the Falls, on the opposite side, standing on the northern bank of the river Chippewa, is the British village of the same name, distant from Fort Erie 17 miles.

Chippewa consisted chiefly of store houses; and near it was a small stockaded work, called Fort Chippewa.

At the distance of 23 miles from the entrance to the Niagara, is Goat Island, about half a mile long, and which extends to the precipice that gives rise to the celebrated Falls.

The larger body of water flows between Upper Canada and Goat Island, at the upper end of which island the broken water, or _rapids_, commence.

Here the stream passes on both sides of the island, over a bed of rocks and precipices, with astonishing rapidity; till, having descended more than fifty feet in the distance of half a mile, it falls, on the British side 157, and on the New York side 162, feet perpendicularly.
From the cataract, the river is a continued rapid, half a mile in width, for about 7 miles.