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1832-33 on the stern simplicity and unstudied grandeur of the scene. I 

 op fear, however, they are destined to become a positive nuisance, 



unless they are abated by the adoption of a more considerate 

 course by visitors. This giving every other person who accosts 

 you a few shillings to show some trumpery which you care not a 

 straw for, may be the easiest way of ridding yourself of his 

 intrusive company and the interruption which it occasions to some 

 cherished train of thought; but it is a riddance at the expense 

 of the next comer, and directly calculated to ensure the perpetual 

 and harrassing annoyance of all future visitors. I wish it were 

 ^ provided by law that no building should be erected within sight 

 of the little plot of ground immediately adjoining the cataract. 

 As matters are now conducted, another twenty years may see the 

 whole amphitheatre filled with grog-shops, humbug museums, etc., 

 etc., — Who knows but it may be profaned by cotton factories? 

 The country from Niagara to the Falls, a distance of eight 

 miles, is well cleared; there are several large farms with excel- 

 lent houses on them, and orchards containing the choicest kinds 

 of peaches, pears and plums. In the summer months stages are 

 continually running between Niagara and the Falls — Queens- 

 ton stands nearly semi-distant between them. — From Queenston 

 there is a coach to Hamilton, by St. Catherines, through a thickly 

 settled and fertile country. 



1833 



1833 Latrobe, Charles Joseph. Niagara. (In Barham, William, 



Latrobc Descriptions of Niagara, selected from various travellers; with original 



additions. Gravesend. n. d. Pp. 105—111.) 



Account taken from Latrobe's Rambles in North America ; may be found 

 in 2d edition. 1836. 1:72-80. 



You may recollect my juvenile weakness, that of being a 

 notorious cascade hunter. There was something in the notion 

 of a waterfall which always made my brain spin with pleasure. 

 Impelled by this passion, as a boy, I ransacked the moorland 

 and mountain districts of the north of England, in quest of the 



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