Niagara Falls 



1828 



Flint 



1828 



Kirkpatrick 



1828 



Stuart 



1829 



Stone 



1828 



Flint, Timothy. (Niagara Falls in 

 Cincinnati. 2:255-260.) 



1828.) (Western monthly 



review. 



He does not attempt any extended description of the Falls but refers 

 to that which had been written earlier and before he had seen the Falls 

 for his Geography and History. " He must have been obtuse of brain 

 and of heart," he writes, " who could have thus contemplated this spectacle 

 alone in this repose of nature, under the light of the moon, and the blue 

 stars twinkling in the cloudless dome of the firmament, and not have 

 thoughts which the poverty of language can never clothe in words." 



Kirkpatrick, John Ervin. 

 author, editor, 1780-1840. . . 

 1911. Pp. 198-199. 



Timothy Flint, pioneer, missionary, 

 , Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Co. 



Stuart, James. Three years in North America. 3d ed. rev. 

 Edinb.: Robert Cadell; Lond. : Whittaker and Co., 1833. 1:138- 

 145. 



Stuart was a Scotch visitor to the United States who wrote for the 

 information of emigrants and tourists. His visit to Niagara Falls in Sep- 

 tember, 1 828, is conscientiously chronicled. By his own account, he made 

 great use of Darby's Vierv of the United Stales and of Flint's Geography 

 and History of the Western States. He also quotes descriptive passages 

 from other writers. 



1829 



STONE, William Leete. From New York to Niagara. Journal 

 of a tour, in part by the Erie canal, in the year 1829. (Buf. hist. soc. 

 pub. 1910. 14:238-250.) 



The account may also be found in the Magazine of American History 

 for October and December, 1888 (20:315 and 489-492). It is by 

 one of the most notable authors and journalists of early New York and 

 describes Niagara Falls and scenery at some length and in lively style. 

 We quote only the author's account of his own feelings and such historical 

 incidents as are not elsewhere touched upon. 



We rode on to the Falls in a light open waggon, drawn by a 

 pair of Canadian ponies. The sun sunk to his nightly rest, as 

 we ascended the heights, tinging with his golden hues the top 

 of the noble column of granite, reared to the memory of Brock, 



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