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Having reached the bottom of the precipice, and approached as near to the cataract, as I could, with apparent safety, I sat down, and spent about two hours in contemplating this astonishing natural curiosity, which is said to be the greatest cataract in the world. The tremendous roar arising from the Falls, added to the awful sublimity of the spectacle of such an uncommon body of water rushing headlong from the rock, with the beautiful surrounding perspectives altogether form a scene which it is impossible to describe. As the morning was bright and clear, a beautiful rainbow was constantly observable in the clouds of mist and spray, that are continually rising from the water below. Here I held my forenoon meeting, and though no words were uttered, it could scarcely be called a silent meeting; the objects before me loudly proclaiming the power and majesty of the Great First Cause and Creator of all things. In the afternoon I returned to the inn, and, after dinner, was invited by the commanding officer of the English garrison to drink tea with him, and his wife and family, in the fort. I accepted his invitation, and spent the evening with them very pleasantly. This officer, whose name is Tallant, had spent some time in Sheffield, a few years back, and had married his wife at Liverpool; she is an agreeable young woman, and well acquainted with some friends of Liverpool. They had a fine child with them, and upon the whole seemed hap-