Music — Poetry — Fiction 



Some of the scenes are laid on the shores of the Niagara, at Lewiston, 1826 

 and on the heights of Queenston, and contain allusions to the cataract. Emmon* 



1828 



PARK, Rev. ROSWELL. Niagara Falls. (In his Selections of juvenile 1828 

 and miscellaneous poems. Phila. : Desilver, Thomas. 1 836. Pp. 70— ° arlc 

 73.) 



PARK, Rev. ROSWELL. Niagara Falls. (In his Jerusalem; and other 

 poems, juvenile and miscellaneous. . . . N. Y. : Stanford. 1857. 

 Pp. 172-175.) 



Written in 1 828 in remembrance of a visit made to Niagara in the 

 preceding year. The author describes the river and rapids and relates the 

 tale of an Indian carried over the Falls while fishing. 



1830 



DUNLAP, WILLIAM. A trip to Niagara; or, Travellers in America. 1830 

 A farce in three acts. Written for the Bowery Theatre, New York. Dunlap 

 N. Y.: E. B. Clayton. 1830. 



The story of this play is mostly concerned with the incidents of the 

 trip from New York to Niagara Falls. The characters are a disagree- 

 able, disgruntled Englishman, his amiable and well-pleased sister and a 

 cousin, a suitor of the sister, who undertakes to cure the brother of his 

 rudeness. He assumes different characters in his efforts to do this. The 

 last scene of the farce has Niagara Falls as a background. 



HERECLIA, Jose Maria. Address to the Niagara river. (In Barham, 1830 

 William, Descriptions of Niagara; selected from various travellers. . . . Hereclia 

 Gravesend. N. d. Pp. 174-175.) 



This poem may also be found in Johnson, R. L., Niagara, its history, 

 incidents and poetry, pp. 48—49. The author was a Spanish-American 

 poet and soldier born in Cuba in 1 803 and died in Mexico in 1 839. 

 He was considered the greatest of Spanish-American poets. 



Tremendous Torrent! for an instant hush 

 The terrors of thy voice, and cast aside 

 Those wide-involving shadows; that mine eyes 

 May see the fearful beauty of thy face. 



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