NIAGARA. 



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and diminished presentment of that majestic presence whose ministering spirits 

 are the rainbows, whose voice is the thunder, whose awful front is veiled in clouds, 

 -who was monarch here dead and forgotten ages before this hackful of small reptiles 

 ■was deemed temporarily necessary to fill a crack in the world's unnoted myriads, 

 and will still be monarch here ages and decades of ages after they shall have gath- 

 ered themselves to their blood relations, the other worms, and been mingled with 

 the unremembering dust. 



There is no actual harm in making Niagara a background whereon to display 



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one's marvellous insignificance in a good strong light, but it requires a sort of 

 superhuman self-complacency to enable one to do it. 



When you have examined the stupendous Horseshoe Fall till you are satisfied 

 you cannot improve on it, you return to America by the new Suspension Bridge, 

 and follow up the bank to where they exhibit the Cave of the Winds. 



Here I followed instructions,- and divested myself of all my clothing, and put 

 on a waterproof jacket and overalls. This costume is picturesque, but not beautiful. 

 A guide, similarly dressed, led the way down ti flight of winding stairs, which 

 wound and wound, and still kept on winding long after the thing ceased to be a 



