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[March 31, 188 1 



For seven or eight hours we travelled through this, and simultaneous appearances over larger tracts of 

 a distance of some 250 miles, and I heard of similar country. 



Gigantic icicle under Table Rock, photographed in Janiiriry, iS8i. The upper right-hand c..,,:er is rock, and .1 r'"'" " "' ' "^ e .ini-d.sn (or Horse-Shoe) Fall 

 is seen on the left. Ihe whole of the apparent ground is a mass of frozen spray which has accumulated maoy tVet .n tt.ickness on the shingle, &C-. at 

 the foot of the rock. 



Probably the most wonderful exhibition ever seen, of, i Falls of Niagara. A large number of readers of NATURE 

 not frozen rain, but frozen spray, was to be found at the | have visited them, and possibly all are sufficiently familiar 



