Preservation of the Falls 



1859 



ENGLEHEART, GARDNER D. Journal of the progress of H. R. H. 1859 

 the Prince of Wales through British North America; and his visit to the Englehearl 

 United States, 10th July to 15th November, 1860. Privately printed. 

 (I860.) Pp. 63-66. 



A brief journal of three days spent at the Falls and in their vicinity. 

 A view of the Falls from Goat Island shows the tower and the angle of 

 the Horseshoe Fall. 



1871 



James, Henry. Niagara. 1871. (In his Portraits of places. 1871 

 Boston. Osgood. 1884. Pp. 364-376.) J ames 



This paper was originally published in the Nation. 



My journey hitherward by a morning's sail from Toronto 

 across Lake Ontario, seemed to me, as regards a certain dull 

 vacuity in this episode of travel, a kind of calculated preparation 

 for the uproar of Niagara — a pause or hush on the threshold of 

 a great impression ; and this, too, in spite of the reverent attention 

 I was mindful to bestow on the first seen, in my experience, of 

 the great lakes. It has the merit, from the shore, of producing a 

 slight ambiguity of vision. It is the sea, and yet just not the sea. 

 The huge expanse, the landless line of the horizon, suggest the 

 ocean; while an indefinable shortness of pulse, a kind of fresh- 

 water gentleness of tone, seem to contradict the idea. What 

 meets the eye is on the scale of the ocean, but you feel somehow 

 that the lake is a thing of smaller spirit. Lake-navigation, there- 

 fore, seems to me not especially entertaining. The scene tends to 

 offer, as one may say, a sort of marine-effect missed. It has the 

 blankness and vacancy of the sea, without that vast essential swell 

 which, amid the belting brine, so often saves the situation to the 

 eye. I was occupied, as we crossed, in wondering whether this 

 dull reduction of the main contained that which could properly 

 be termed " scenery." At the mouth of the Niagara River, how- 

 ever, after a sail of three hours, scenery really begins, and very 

 soon crowds upon you in force. The steamer puts into the narrow 



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