﻿NIAGARA 
  FALLS 
  AND 
  VICINITY 
  

  

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  rents 
  may 
  be 
  seen 
  from 
  the 
  upper 
  walks 
  in 
  the 
  Canadian 
  park, 
  and 
  

   the 
  effectual 
  erosion 
  of 
  the 
  banks 
  may 
  also 
  be 
  observed. 
  In 
  many 
  

   cases 
  the 
  shores 
  have 
  been 
  ballasted 
  and 
  otherwise 
  protected 
  against 
  

   the 
  current. 
  During 
  an 
  earlier 
  period, 
  when 
  the 
  falls 
  were 
  situated 
  

   farther 
  north, 
  and 
  before 
  the 
  central 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  stream 
  had 
  been 
  

   deepened 
  to 
  its 
  present 
  extent, 
  the 
  water, 
  then 
  at 
  the 
  level 
  of 
  the 
  

   river 
  above 
  Goat 
  island, 
  flooded 
  what 
  is 
  now 
  the 
  Queen 
  Victoria 
  

  

  

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  K 
  

  

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  LJ^ 
  

  

  

  

  

  Fig. 
  19 
  Crest 
  lines 
  of 
  Horseshoe 
  falls. 
  From 
  the 
  original 
  tracing 
  of 
  the 
  surveys 
  by 
  courtesy 
  of 
  

   the 
  New 
  York 
  state 
  engineer 
  and 
  surveyor. 
  1 
  Terrapin 
  rocks. 
  2 
  Former 
  Table 
  rock. 
  

  

  park, 
  and 
  carved 
  from 
  the 
  till 
  the 
  pronounced 
  concave 
  wall 
  which 
  

   now 
  bounds 
  the 
  park 
  on 
  the 
  west. 
  A 
  local 
  eddy, 
  probably 
  during 
  

   very 
  recent 
  times, 
  carved 
  the 
  steep 
  and 
  still 
  fresh 
  semicircular 
  cliff 
  

   which 
  incloses 
  the 
  Dufferin 
  islands. 
  

  

  The 
  fate 
  of 
  Goat 
  island 
  is 
  not 
  difficult 
  to 
  foresee. 
  In 
  a 
  thousand 
  

   years 
  from 
  now, 
  at 
  the 
  present 
  rate 
  of 
  recession, 
  the 
  Horseshoe 
  falls 
  

  

  