Niagara Falls 



1805 made last winter through the ice to measure this depth, and that 

 it was found to exceed sixty fathoms; but it was doubtful, at 

 last, whether the bottom had been ascertained. 



Quoted from the journal of a distinguished Massachusetts lawyer who 

 set out from Boston in July, 1805, with four companions and traveled 

 through the interior of New York state, then almost a wilderness. In the 

 course of their travels the company came to Niagara. 



1806 



1806 E. Falls of Niagara. (Portfolio. May, 1811. 5:450-452.) 



A brief description of Niagara at night under compact black clouds 

 stretching across the river. 



1807 



1807 RlCHARD, John. The conversion of Mr. John Richard related by 

 Richard himself. (U. S. Cath. hist, mag., 1887. 1 :94.) 



The journal of a Methodist minister of Virginia who, in 1807, made a 

 journey to Montreal for the purpose of converting the Sulpitians there to 

 the Protestant faith, but instead himself went over to Catholicism. He 

 visited the Falls on July 28, 1807. 



1807 ScHULTZ, CHRISTIAN. Travels on an inland voyage through the 



states of New-York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Ten- 

 nessee, and through the territories of Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi and 

 New-Orleans; performed in the years 1807 and 1808; including a tour 

 of nearly six thousand miles. 2 vol. N. Y. : Isaac Riley. 1810. 

 1 :54, 58-83. 



Schultz visited the Falls in August, 1807 and reported in graphic style 

 what he saw and heard there. 



Before the rising of the wind, as I was on deck, I could 

 very plainly distinguish the hollow murmuring of the Falls of 

 Niagara, although not less than twenty miles distant [Lake 

 Ontario]. As soon as the wind began to breeze, however, the 

 sound was lost, nor did I hear it again until I landed at this place 

 [Fort Niagara]. The roar of these falls can be heard at any 

 considerable distance only during a perfect calm, and when a 

 light current of air comes from the direction of the falls; when, 

 I am told, it has been heard at a distance of forty miles across 

 the lake. 



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