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Though the weather here was fine, the number of visitors at the 
village (called Manchester) appeared to me small, and the place in 
consequence very quiet. As may be supposed it abounds with large 
and very good hotels, but I suspect that the Spas of Saratoga and 
Ballston have greater attractions for the American public than the 
wonders of Niagara; the advanced season made it expedient not to 
lose time in visiting Canada, as otherwise I should certainly have 
taken a peep at those celebrated watering-places. About 2 P.m., a 
heavy shower came on with much wind and a good deal of thunder, 
but distant, and I was again disappointed in not witnessing an 
American thunderstorm in all its alleged terrors and sublimit 
The vegetation around the Falls consists principally of décidspoh 
trees, di only evergreens being the Arbor Vite (Thuja occidentalis 
and Red Cedar (Juniperus virginianus). The largest trees were on 
Goat Island, where in addition to the above grew the Sugar Maple 
(deer saccharinum), very fine ;* Basswood (Tilia glabra), a very pre- 
vailing species in Upper Canada ; Beech (Fagus ferruginea) ; Hornbeam 
(Carpinus Americana); Yron-wood (Ostrya Virginica), common and 
great American Aspen (Populus trepida and grandidentata) ; Black 
Cherry, or Sweet Birch (Betula lenta), a beautiful and valuable species ; 
which, I presume, must be a very rare production about the 
since the only example I found on Goat Island had been carefully 
protected by a wooden fencing, and an inscription deprecatory of com- 
memorative penknives :—‘ This tree not to be carved on!" The 
undergrowth consisted of the White-berried Dogwood (Cornus stoloni- 
fera, Mx., C. alba of authors, not of Linn.), a northern species uni- 
versally přopagětéd in English shrubberies, and abundantly wild in 
Canada; its fine fruit, of an ivory white when in maturity, at length 
becoming lead blue, as I have also remarked it in England, probably 
from over-ripeness. Cornus circinnata, likewise common, a species 
which some years since was brought into transient notice for its medi- 
cinal virtues, now made a handsome appearance with its large round 
leaves and broad clusters of pale light blue berries, as did the grey- 
green foliage of Shepherdia Canadensis and that of the graceful Stag's 
lorn Sumach (Rhus fyphina), now glowing in its rich autumnal 
* One very old Sugar Maple on Goat Island must have been nearly four feet in 
‘diameter, aud though much decayed at top, seventy feet or perhaps more in height. 
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