Niagara Falls 



1826 ladder, a steep path-way, rendered passable by roots, rocks, etc. 

 The cave is about 80 yards below the ladder. The way to it is 

 difficult ; the passage is barely large enough to admit a man, and 

 in it are found stalactites, and specimens of something that seems 

 like petrified moss or wood. About 20 feet above is a beautiful 

 spring, issuing from a rock, in a singular rocky position; and 

 there is another cave near by which is also worthy of a visit. 



1827 



1827 A trip to Niagara. By a Washingtonian. (Soc. lit. miss., Nov. 

 1827. 3:657-664.) 



An account of the journey to the Falls, with a description of the cataract 

 and the effect of the spectacle upon the feelings of the beholder. 



1828 



1828 STUART, JAMES. Three years in North America. 3d ed. rev. Edin.: 

 Stuar » Robert Cadell. Lond. : Whittaker and Co. 1 833. Vol. I. Pp. 1 38, 



140-141. 



From Black-Rock we had a very pleasant ride, by a level 

 road along the river side sixteen miles, to Chippewa, the battle- 

 ground of a severely contested action between the Americans and 

 the British in 1814, and to Niagara Falls, three miles farther. 

 The country we passed through was entirely level, greatly over- 

 cropped, and there was very little appearance of industry or 

 exertion to reclaim it. Wherever the stage stopped to water the 

 horses, the doors were crowded with children offering apples 

 and plums for sale; and we saw, for the first time on this side 

 of the Atlantic, several beggars. 



We distinctly heard the sound of the cataract, about ten miles 

 from the falls; but it is often heard at a far greater distance in 

 favourable states of the wind and atmosphere, even, it is said, 

 thirty miles from them. The spray, appearing like a cloud of 

 smoke, was visible at the distance of more than two miles. 



The best points of view are from the Table Rock and from 

 the boat, from which the falls, as well on the American as on the 



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