Travelers' Original Accounts: 1 80 1 -1840 



It is alone in its kind. Though a waterfall, it is not to be com- 1831 

 pared with other waterfalls. In its majesty, its supremacy, and reenwood 

 its influence on the soul of man, its brotherhood is with the living 

 ocean and the eternal hills. 



And the motion of these Falls, how wonderfully fine it is! 

 how graceful, how stately, how calm! There is nothing in it 

 hurried or headlong, as you might have supposed. The eye is so 

 long in measuring the vast, and yet unacknowledged height, that 

 they seem to move over almost slowly; the central and most 

 voluminous portion of the Horseshoe even goes down silently. 



Tudor, Henry. Narrative of a tour in North America comprising 1831 

 Mexico, the mines of Real del Monte, the United States, and the British Tudor 

 colonies, with an excursion to the island of Cuba. In a series of letters 

 written in the years 1831-1832. Lond. : James Duncan. 1834. 

 1 :235-268. 



The author regaled his " optical as well as moral senses " by the 

 spectacle for a week or more. He recounts at length his experiences and 

 emotions at the various points of view. 



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FlDLER, Isaac. Observations on professions, literature, manners, and 1832 

 emigration, in the United States and Canada, made during a residence Fidler 

 there in 1832. Lond.: Whittaker, Treacher. 1833. Pp. 209-214. 



A hearsay account of the hermit of Niagara. 



Trollope, Frances MiLTON. Domestic manners of the Ameri- 1832 

 cans. Lond.: Whittaker, Treacher, 1832. Pp. 302-309. Trollope 



A vivacious yet accurate description in excellent style and sympathetic 

 mood. 



At length we reached Niagara. It was the brightest day that 

 June could give; and almost any day would have seemed bright 

 that brought me to the object which, for years, I had languished 

 to look upon. 



We did not hear the sound of the falls till very near the 

 hotel which overhangs them; as you enter the door you see 

 beyond the hall an open space, surrounded by galleries, one above 



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