Niagara Falls 



1829 



Stone 



and it is altogether a scene of peculiar grandeur. The waters 

 boil darkly up in the bay, as if in great volume, and from 

 immense depths; and some have conjectured that soon after 

 tumbling over the falls, the bulk of the waters are driven through 

 a subterranean channel, from the mouth of which they boil up 

 in this place. The ride through Lundy's Lane and Drummonds- 

 ville to and from this wild and rarely visited spot, was delightful. 

 We returned to the Pavilion to dinner; and in the afternoon 

 took the stage for Buffalo. 



1830 



Col ton 



1830 



CoLTON, C. Tour of the American lakes, and among the Indians of 

 the North-west territory, in 1830. . . . Lond. : Westley, Davis. 

 1833. 1:1-11. 



A Niagara chapter in enthusiastic style. 



1831 



Alexander 



1831 



Fowler 



1831 



Greenwood 



1831 



ALEXANDER, James EDWARD, Captain. Transatlantic sketches, com- 

 prising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, 

 and the West Indies. Lond. : Bentley. 1833. 2:141-156. 



To this British soldier the first view of the Falls in 1831 seemed "more 

 like what one may venture to conceive of what shall afterwards be revealed 

 to the blessed in Paradise, than any other of the most imposing of Nature's 

 works " which he had delighted in visiting. After some description of 

 the scenery, he concludes with an. account of the hermit of Niagara. 



FOWLER, THOMAS. The journal of a tour through British America 

 to the Falls of Niagara . . . written during the summer of 1831. 

 Aberdeen: Smith. 1832. Pp. 214-231. 



A painstaking description written for the information of tourist and 

 emigrants. Also an account of the hermit of Niagara written shortly after 

 his death. 



Greenwood, Francis William Pitt. Miscellaneous writings. 

 Bost: Crosby and Nichols. (1846.) Pp. 290-308. 



The author visited the Falls in July, 1 83 1 . His estimate of the scene 

 is best given in his own words. 



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