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1871 hollow elbow of the Canada shore. The movement with which it 

 betrays its surprise and bewilderment — the sudden issueless maze 

 of waters — is, I think, after the Horseshoe Fall, the superbest 

 thing in its progress. It breaks into no small rage; the offend- 

 ing cliffs receive no drop of spray ; for the flood moves in a body 

 and wastes no vulgar side-spurts ; but you see it shaken to its inner- 

 most bowels and panting hugely, as if smothered in its excessive 

 volume. Pressed back upon its centre, the current creates a sort 

 of pivot, from which it eddies, groping for exit in vast slow circles, 

 barely outlined in foam. The Canada shore, shaggy and gaudy 

 with late September foliage, closes about it like the rising shelves 

 of an amphitheatre, and deepens by contrast the strong blue-green 

 of the stream. This slow-revolving basin resembles nothing so 

 much as some ancient palace-pavement, cracked and scratched by 

 the butts of legionary spears and the gold stiffened hem of the 

 garments of kings. 



1872 



1872 DUFFERIN, The MARCHIONESS OF. My Canadian journal, 

 Dufferin 1872-78. Extracts from my letters home written while Lord Dufferin was 



governor-general. New York: 1891. Pp. 39-40; 450. 



Give the author's impression of the Falls and a trip through the cave 

 of the winds, and a paragraph dealing with Lord Dufferin's part in 

 suggesting the Niagara Reservation scheme. 



1873 



1873 MEDLEY, JULIUS George. An autumn tour in the United States 

 Medley and Canada. Lond. : H.S.King. 1873. Pp. 86-88. 



1874 



1874 WHETHAM, J. W. BoDDAM. (Western wanderings; a record of 

 Whetham travel in the evening land. Lond.: Bentley. 1874. Pp. 20-27.) 



Guides and touts of all descriptions pressed their services upon 

 us ; urged us to take carriages, though the distance was only a few 

 hundred yards, and generally proffered assistance, which, having 

 no need of, we resolutely declined. Then, conscious of having 



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