Open Road — Guides — Radroads — Canals — Bridges 



Traveler's guide, and illustrated description of central New York, 1866 

 Niagara Falls, Saratoga Springs, etc., together with railroad time tables. 

 Buffalo: Felton and Brother. 1866. Pp. 43-52. 



Besides a brief well-written account of the history of the Niagara 

 frontier, there is a most interesting, not to say entertaining and half jocular 

 account of all points of interest in order. It is written in an unusually 

 good style. Advises escape from the hackmen and ample time for a 

 leisurely survey. Of unusual literary merit for a guide book account. 

 There are two views of the Falls, one from the American shore and one 

 from Goat Island, neither of them very good. 



Another edition in 1 886. 



Drive first to Table Rock ; now but a ruin, with hardly a trace 

 of its former glory. In July, 1818, it lost forty feet of its width 

 and one hundred and sixty feet of its length. In 1 828 three other 

 pieces fell off. In 1829 another body broke away, and on the 

 twenty-sixth day of June, 1 850, a huge mass, two hundred feet 

 long, sixty feet wide, and one hundred feet thick, was precipitated 

 down the bank. 



1867 



HUNTER, WlLLIAM S. Hunter and Chisholm's panoramic guide from 1867 

 Niagara Falls to Quebec. Montreal: Chisholm. 1867. Pp. 1-18. Hunter 



The authors have endeavored to give a "panoramic or picture map of 

 all the most celebrated and picturesque points along the noble river." 



(Small, H. B. comp.) The Canadian handbook and tourist's guide. 1867 

 . . . Montreal: Longmore. 1867. Pp. 170-185. Small 



1869 



HUMPHREY, James M. Speech in the house of representatives, 1869 

 January 1 4, 1 869, on bill No. 1212, to provide for the construction of a Humphrey 

 ship-canal around the Falls of Niagara. 



Proposed to substitute another bill providing federal aid for the enlarge- 

 ment of the Erie and Oswego canals. 



1870? 



Barham, WlLLIAM. Descriptions of Niagara; selected from various 1870? 

 travellers: with original additions. Gravesend: n. d. Pp. 1 02— 1 05 ; Barham 

 157-159. 



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