teau is the source of the Ashwanipi River, and
since it is about 3000 feet above the sea level,
in a flow of 300 miler, falls and rapids ire-
quently occur.
The Grand Falls are spoken of as affording a
magnificent spectacle. "The spray, which was
visible twenty miles, ro=e in a 'cloud from the
descent of the water, and the solid rock beneath
their feet trembled perceptibly".
Leaving these falls the water flows through a
rocky canyon, whose sides rise to a height of
500 feet and are heavily wooded at the top.
The water is said to rush through tl►e canyon
with terrific force.
The perpendicular height of the Grand Fall
is 200 feet—some forty feet higher than Niagara
—but the rapids leading to it increase itm alti
tude to 500 feet. AboVe the falls the average
width of the river is 500 yards, narrowing until
it reaches the precipice to a width of only fifty
yards, when it plunges with a tremendous roar
into the narrow gorge below. Mr. Cole de
scended to the f lot of the falls and succeeded
in obtaining some goo I p'io•ographs of them.
'rw ) emplo CA of the Hudson Pay Company
once claimed to have visited this place, but no
reliable ace *unt of it has ever be en given to
the world. To Cole and Cary belongs the hon
or of their discovery.
• After malting a trip to a neighboring peak,
which they christened "Mount Hyde—Bow
doin" tit it provisions being all but gone, the
two adventurers s t out upon 'their return.
When they hail reached the point whi re
they had left their boat they found to
their dismay that it had been consumed, to
g ether u ith their at , etc of supplies, guns, etc.,
by the embers of their camp tire.
But they were equal to the situation. With a
small hatchet they built a ra't 4 f logs, bound
them together with root, 'and started on their
three hundred mile voyage (loan the river.
Before reaching their vessel September 1,
they suffered great . hardship , . They were
THE FREE LANCE.
obliged to construct five rafts in all, at different
points, and their only food dur:ng m st of the
trip consisted of squirrels which they killed
with a small revolver.
Some days after this were spent in exploring
the Labrabor coast to the northward of the
Ashwanipi, with what results we are not in
formed as yet. The schooner reached the port
of Rockland, Me., about ten days ago, when the
residents turned out and gave the boys a right
royal reception. We shall await with keen in
terest the full report of the summer's cruse iu
the North Atlantic.
Meanwhile we cannot too highly commend
the energy and pluck displayed by Mcssr,. Cole
and Cary. It is of lust such "clear grit" as
theirs that Livingstones and Stan eys are made,
E. P D.
A COLLEGE FREAK-THE LOAFER.
I sat in my study--both elbows on the table, head
resting firmly on both hands, eyes fixed intently on
a book. Was I studying? No—hut I was trying
hard to. I would get m)c mind fixed on that
pivotal equation—P+P 2 =:(2,—when suddenly
my thoughts would fly off to the big bass which I
had just missed catching during the summer, or to
the dear girl whom I had met at H—, or indeed
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A FOOT-BALL ASPIRANT.
A molonoholy youth WEIR 110.
Of pale and sickly hue,
Ills head was swelled, hid nose was smashed,
Each eye was pruslan blue.
Ho walked along with feeble istell
And fiLco all drawn with pain,
And loaned his weakened body on
A mighty English cane,
"Oh broken man," 1 asked ht►n then,
"What have you undergone,
A Johnstown flood, a Charleston qtrtke,
Or gallant John L's brawn?"
In hollow tones he answered Inn,
"Though It may lying seem,
I bear these bruises Just because
I'm on the second team "