Niagara Falls 



1700 



Le Clerc 



1700 



Dember 



1700 



Luken 



Le Clerc, Sebastian. (Elie enleve dans un Char de Feu.) 

 Grosvenor Library, Buffalo, N. Y. Views of Niagara Falls. 1697-187—. 

 Mat I.) 



DEMBER, George. Map of Niagara river or the straights between the 

 Lakes Erie and Ontario, by Geo. Dember, 60th Reg'mt. (/n 

 O'Callaghan, E. B., The documentary history of the state of New York. 

 Albany: 1849. Vol. II. P. 458.) 



" Latitude from Mr. Elliott. . . . Falls 43° 4' 25". Height 150 

 feet." . . . 



Luken, Caspar. Niagara. (1697.) 



A copy of this quaint old engraving may be seen in the New York 

 Public Library. It is dated 1697, but that is probably an error, as it is a 

 copy of the Hennepin view, which was not published until 1697. 



1702 



1702 Campanius Holm, Thomas. (View of the Falls of Niagara.) 



Campanius T. Ch. (sc.) 5 '/^ x 5%. (In his Kort beskrifning om provincien Nya 

 Holm Severige uti America, som nu forjden af the Engelske kallas Pennsylvania. 

 Stockholm: S. Wankyfs. 1702. Opp. P. 4.) 



A Hennepin view with the left-hand figures and the trees omitted. 

 Opposite page 52 is a map " Virginiae N. Angliae, N. Hollandiae nee no 

 Novae Sueciae Delineatio." " Sault de Niagara " indicated by a break 

 in the river. 



1702 The cataract of Niagara. (1702.) (Print.) 



" Some make this waterfall to be half a League while others 

 reckon it no more than a hundred Fathom." 



" A view of ye Industry of ye Beavers of Canada in making 

 Dams to stop ye Course of a Rivulet, in order to form a great 

 Lake, about which they build their Habitations. To effect this : 

 they fell large Trees with their Teeth, in such manner as to make 

 them come cross ye Rivulet, to lay ye foundation of ye Dam; 

 they make Mortar, work up and finish ye whole with great order 

 and wonderful Dexterity." 



" The Beavers have two Doors to their Lodges, one to the 

 Water and the other to the Land side, according to French 



accounts." 



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