Music — Poetry — Fiction 



To view Niagara Falls one day, 1850 



A parson and a tailor took their way ; w,llu 



The parson cried whilst wrapped in wonder, 

 And listening to the cataract's thunder, 

 Lord ! how thy works amaze our eyes, 

 And fill our hearts with vast surprise ; 

 The tailor merely made this note — 

 Lord ! what a place to sponge a coat ! 



Another wrote in the album: 



I have been to " Termination Rock," 



Where many have been before; 

 But as I can't describe the scene 



I won't say any more. 



1851 



Descent into the rapids of Niagara. An authentic narrative. 1851 

 (Knicker. [N. Y.], Oct., 1851. 38:414-416.) 



The tale of a man who, moved to a frenzy of madness and forgetfulness 

 by the Falls, allowed himself to float down the rapids in a skiff, which 

 was fortunately shattered on a rock below Goat Island bridge, leaving the 

 man to be rescued. 



Schoolcraft, Henry R. Niagara, an allegory. (In his The 1851 

 American Indians. . . . Rochester: Wanzer, Foot. 1851. Schoolcraft 

 P. 407.) 



A poem about the old gray man of the mountain and his five daughters, 

 the five lakes, who ran away to look at the sea. 



(SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry Rowe.) Western scenes and reminiscences; 

 together with thrilling legends and traditions of the red men of the forest. 

 . . . Auburn: Derby and Miller. Buffalo: Derby, Orton, and 

 Mulligan. 1853. P. 407. 



Contains " Niagara, an allegory." 



1854 



McGuiRE, MlCHAEL. Thoughts on Niagara. (In Artman, William 1854 

 and Hall, L. V., Beauties and achievements of the blind. Dansville, McGuire 

 N.Y.: Pub. for the authors. 1854. Pp. 363-365.) 



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