46 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 



country flat — pleasant prospect of the river and the celebrated 

 Navy Island which is still nearly covered with timber. 



''28th and 29th — passed at Niagara in viewing the Falls 

 from the American and Canada shore — descended the cliff at 

 Goat Island and made a showery incursion under the prin- 

 cipal cataract — found the noise tremendous and deafening — 

 in the afternoon of the 29th Left the falls and its genteel com- 

 pany and visited the rapids on the river below called the 

 whirlpool — also the deep and gloomy chasm in the rock — the 

 Devils Hole — the River Niagara flowing as a rapid torrent 

 through a deep channel of rocks is a romantic sight — seven 

 miles from the cataract it arrives at the plain level country 

 and assumes the breadth and depth of a grand and navigable 

 river at Lewiston where we arrived the same evening and 

 remained all night — the noise of the great fall still as audible 

 as in the immediate vicinity. 



"30th — early this morning (and before the ladies arose) 

 took a solitary walk to regain the rising ground and obtain 

 another extensive view of the surrounding country on both 

 sides of the river— and opposite the monument erected in 

 Queenstown Heights in memory of the British General Brock 

 who fell in the engagement on the same spot in the war of 

 1812— returned by Rail Road to Lockport— thence by the 

 natural alluvial turnpike called the ridge road to Rochester 

 passing Brockport to the right and thru a fruitful aixl highly 

 cultivated country— a country rich in the productions of 

 Pomona and Geres— arrived at my Father's house late in the 

 evening after a days journey of nearly a hundred miles. 



"1 & 2 Aug 1 — on sunday went to church in the morning 

 — after the usual prayers of the Episcopal church heard an 

 eloquent sermon by the learned and reverend Doct. White- 

 l 10ust — i n the evening took a ride with our friend Mr. Delano 

 in his gig to the lower falls of the Genesee river—passing thro 

 that Irish suburb of Rochester called Dublin — the lowness of 

 the river took off somewhat of the grandeur of the Genesee 

 falls which if they were not so near the thundering Niagara 

 might attrack more attention. The Genesee leaps off the 

 same bed of rocks as its greater sister. 



"3rd took an excursion with my dear little sister Caroline 

 leaving Rochester in the Easter Stage and with agreeable 

 company we passed thro Pittsford and Canandaighua to 

 Geneva on Lake Seneca— one of the lakes tho secondary in 

 s i se — superior in beauty to the great Northern lakes— re- 

 mained here for the night— in the evening joined the audience 

 of the Pres n church and listened to a poetical composition 



