Travelers' Original Accounts: 1 80) — / 840 



The name of "the horse shoe," hitherto given to the larger 1816-17 

 Fall, is no longer applicable: it has become an acute angle. 

 M. Volney, and Mr. Weld have observed this change. An 

 officer, who had been stationed in the neighbourhood thirty years, 

 pointed out to me the alteration which had taken place in the 

 centre of the Fall, which he estimated at about eighteen feet 

 in the thirty years. 



1817 



MonTULE, Edouard DE. A voyage to North America, and the West 1817 

 Indies in 1817. Lond.: Phillips. 1821. Pp. 92-95. Mon,ule 



Contains a letter from " Buffaloe," under date of July 31, 1817, 

 describing a visit to an Indian village near Buffalo and to the Falls. The 

 Frenchman viewed the Falls from Table Rock, penetrated some distance 

 behind the Falls on the Canadian side, and made some measurements on 

 his own account. 



SaNSOM, Joseph. Sketches of Lower Canada, historical and descrip- j 8 17 

 tive; with the author's recollections of the soil, and aspect; the morals, Ransom 

 habits, and religious institutions, of that isolated country; during a tour to 

 Quebec in the month of July, 1817. New York : Kirk and Mercein. 

 1817. P. 294. 



1818 



Duncan, Jchn M. Travels through part of the United States and 1818 

 Canada in 1 81 8 and 1 819. N. Y.: W. B. Gilley; New Haven: Howe Duncan 

 & Spalding. 1823. 2:29-58. 



The record of two visits made in the fall of 1818. There is some 

 discussion of the recession of the Falls, a theory which the author regards 

 as gratuitous. 1 



Niagara, October, 1918. 



It was on a beautiful morning that I last left Buffalo ; 

 the sky was clear and the air perfectly serene. Not a single cloud 

 was seen upon the broad expanse, except in the northwest, on 

 the very verge of the horizon, where two little fleecy specks 

 appeared and disappeared at intervals; sometimes rising sepa- 



1 For further quotation, see the chapter on Science — Geology — 

 Physics. 



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