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awful plunge! Dreadful uproar echoes round the deep abyss, 1821 

 whilst the never-ceasing war of jarring elements, break, quiver, *"* ury 

 burst, and roll around — 



As if the phrenzi'd demons of the air 



Loos'd from their chains of adamant had met 



In fierce encounter. 



Mingling yells and groans of horror, appear to unite with the 

 clash of sparkling armour, and the angry spirits of the torrent, 

 from their watery caverns, seem to exclaim loud and threatening, 

 begone ! — We obey the summons and hurrying precipitately 

 away, regain a more secure and comfortable station. 



Fishes without life, parts of animals, and the limbs of human 

 beings, it is said, are sometimes found washed on the shore. 



1822 



(BLANE, WILLIAM NEWNHAM.) An excursion through the United 1822 

 States and Canada during the years 1822-1823. Lond. : Baldwin, *"' 

 Craddock and Joy. 1 824. Pp. 393-406. 



Gives the author's first impressions of the Falls — " indescribable sensa- 

 tions of admiration and delight," with an account of the trip under the 

 Falls, the ferry, and the whirlpool. He considers it " worth a long journey 

 to see only the rapids above." 



FLINT, James. Letters from America, containing observations on the 1822 

 climate and agriculture of the western states, the manners of the people, 

 the prospects of emigrants. . . . Edinb. : \V. and C. Tait. 1 822. 

 Pp. 290-294. (Thwaites, Early western travels, 1 748-1 846. 9:317- 

 320.) 



A good account by a discriminating Scotch traveler who saw the Falls 

 with sympathetic and discerning eye. Evidently the falls were much fre- 

 quented even in those days, for he writes: "The falls of Niagara are 

 much visited by strangers, as during our short stay there we met with sev- 

 eral persons who were examining them. There is a large tavern on each 

 side of the river, and in the album kept at one of these, I observed that 

 upwards of a hundred folio pages had been written with names within five 

 months." 



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