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Excerpt from The Great Cataract Illustrated: And Complete Guide to All Points of Interest At, and in the Vicinity of the Falls of Niagara Mouth of the St. Lawrence to Hochelaga or Montreal, where he found ploughed lands and large and beautiful plains full of the corn of the country. Here, Cartier, collected information from the Indians, who had accorded him a cordial welcome, about the rapids and source of the St. Lawrence and some distant water-falls. From this period to the end of the seventeenth century incidental reference is made in various explorers' accounts to the existence of the Falls, which are found marked down on several maps, but no. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.