CONTENTS 



VOLUME I 



Preface by the State Historian xi 



Charles M. Dow — In Memoriam xiii 



Introduction 1 



Glossary of Abbreviations used for Periodicals 5 



List of Bibliographies 11 



Chapter I 

 Niagara Discovered : The French Period 17 



Chapter II 

 Other Eighteenth Century Accounts : The English Period 53 



Chapter III 



Travelers' Original Accounts, 1801 — 1840 127 



Chapter IV 

 Travelers' Original Accounts since 1 840 229 



Chapter V 

 Niagara — Historical and Reminiscent 369 



Chapter VI 

 Flora and Fauna 439 



Chapter VII 

 Science, Geology and Physics 



Part 1 495 



Part II 589 



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