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Chap. XI.

Indian curiosities, and a printed certificate filled up with my name,[1] stating that I had walked for 230 feet behind the great fall, which statement, was assured by an American fellow-traveller, was "a sell right entirely, an almighty all-fired big flam."

  1. ↑ "Niagara Falls, C. W.: Register Office, Table Rock.—This is to certify, that Miss — — — has passed behind the Great Falling Sheet of Water to Termination Rock, being 230 feet behind the Great Horse-shoe Fall. Given under my hand this 13th day of———, 1854.—Thomas Barnett."
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