CHAPTER XXIII. 



ME CANTEEALL'S FEIEND FIELD FOE GEOLOGICAL EESEAECH IN 

 THE UNITED STATES EYELESS FISH YOYAGE UP THE MISSOURI 

 ALTON CHICAGO GLIMPSE OF LAKE MICHIGAN FIEST AND 



SECOND CLASS PASSENGEES ON AMEEICAN EAILWAYS THE MICHI 

 GAN EXCHANGE HOTEL SUPEEIOE APPEAEANCE OF THE COUNTEY 

 IN CANADA LAKE ST CLAEE LAKE ONTAEIO DOUBLE SUS 

 PENSION BEIDGE OVEE THE NIAGAEA EXPLOITS OF BLONDIN 



AND SHIELDS DESECEATION OF THE FALLS BENEATH THE FALLS 

 INTEEE STING EEMINISCENCE OF NIAGAEA AMEEICAN EXAGGEE- 

 ATIONS WILD FOWL CAEEIED OYEE THE FALLS VISIT TO ME 

 JAMES BOOTH GOAT ISLAND DANGEEOUS AMUSEMENT WITH A 

 CHILD AWFUL POSITION OF A MAN A SOEDID MUEDEEER A 

 HONEYMOON TEIP TO THE FALLS. 



DURING my travels on the prairies, short as they of 

 necessity were, I endeavoured to elicit from every man 

 I met " notions," as the Americans would call them, of all 

 he had ever seen or met with, always leaving a mon 

 strous margin for the marvellous, in which it seems to be 

 the delight of most of the inhabitants of the United 

 States to indulge. In this I allude to certain classes of 

 society among whom this curious recreation principally 

 exists. The soldier and the gentleman lies not at all. 

 It appeared to me that I could get just as much correct 



