The English Period 



are frequently piled in huge masses, up to half its height. With 1796 

 the noise, occasioned by the falls, we were less struck than we url 



expected; and Mr. Guillemard, as well as myself, who had both 

 seen the Rhine-fall near Schafhausen, could not but acknowl- 

 edge, that the noise it produces is far more striking. Yet, I must 

 repeat it again and again, that nothing can stand the test of com- 

 parison with the Falls of Niagara. Let no one expect to find 

 here something pleasing, wildly beautiful or romantic; all is 

 wonderfully grand, awful, sublime; every power of the soul is 

 arrested; the impression strikes deeper, the longer you contem- 

 plate, and you feel more strongly the impossibility of any expres- 

 sions doing justice to your perceptions and feelings. 



1797 



(Cass, LEWIS.) France, its king, court and government. By an 1797 

 American. N. Y.: Wiley and Putman. 1840. Pp. 127-130. Can 



Due de Montpensier, in a letter of August 14, 1797, to his sister, 

 the Princess Adelaide of Orleans, speaks briefly of a visit to Niagara Falls. 



McKlNNON, DANIEL. A tour through the British West Indies in J79g 

 the years 1 802 and 1 803, giving a particular account of the Bahama McKinnon 

 Islands. 2d ed. with an app. Lond. : for J. White by S. Woolmer. 

 1812. Pp. 282-286. 



Appendix " giving an account of a tour through the state of New York 

 and the Province of Upper Canada, and relating to the Falls of Niagara." 



This appendix " originally published in some periodical works, and was 

 addressed in a letter, dated October, 1 798, to the late Major General 

 Mackinnon." 



1800 



MAUDE, John. Visit to the Falls of Niagara, in 1800. Lond.; 1800 

 Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1826. Pp. 131-159. Maude 



By Maude's own account his book " is a faithful copy of a gentleman's 

 journal, written to assist his memory, respecting the events of one of the 

 most interesting of the numerous expeditions he made through various 

 parts of the United States of America, during a residence of seven years 

 in that country, at intervals from 1 793 to 1803." 



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