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Joshua Sharpless' Journal [Visit to Upper Canada and Parts Adjacent], 1797

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Tea and Loaf Sugar, Bread eaqual to any made in Chester County &;c We then went to the River Niagara >½ a mile to View a remarkable whirlpoole about 3 miles below the great Catarack the River was not more than 20 pearches wide both above and below sd. poole the depth unknownand it runs in a romantick and ra--pid condition, the banks on each side perhaps 1000 feet high got our horses shod this Morning, Dined at Jeremiah Moores, attended an appointed meet-ing held in an house near the great falls, built by the neighbors in ge--neral for any who Choose to hold a meeting in it, it was a Quiet well conducted Meeting, and Gospell Truths delivered with good Authority, the meeting was held chiefly for those of other so--cieties Lodged at Willam Lundyes 4 m 6th day the 9th [sic] a Cold Frosty night, cloudy mor morning and like for now, set off for Black Creek, stoped to View the great falls, the wind Southeast blew the fog or mist that arose from the fall of the water over us which fell in small