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1832 had been made fast at the bottom, the carpenters swung them- 

 Trollope selves off the rocks, by the means of ropes, to the beams which 

 traversed it; and as they sat across them, in the midst of the 

 spray and the uproar, I thought I had never seen life perilled so 

 wantonly. But the work proceeded without accident, and was 

 nearly finished before we left the hotel. 



It was a sort of pang to take what we knew must be our last 

 look at Niagara; but "we had to do it," as the Americans 

 say, and left it on the 10th of June, for Buffalo. 



1832 ViGNE, Godfrey T. Six months in America. Lond.: Whittaker, 

 Vigne Treacher. 1832. 2:123-134. 



The author, an English barrister, viewed " the diapson of fresh 

 waters," as he calls Niagara, in 1832. To him disappointment in the 

 spectacle was " but a proof of insufferable affectation," but he thought that 

 the effect of a Bengal light on the cataract " on a dark, stormy winter's 

 night, would be exceedingly fine." 



1833 



1833 ARFWEDSON, Carl David. The United States and Canada in 1832, 

 Arfwedson 1833, and 1834. Lond.: Richard Bentley. 1834. 2:312-326. 



A good account by a careful observer. 



1833 CoRTAMBERT, Louis RlCHARD. " Excursion aux cataractes du 



Cortambert Niagara. Juin, 1833." (In his Voyage au pays des Osages. Un tour 

 en Sicile. Paris: A. Bertrand. 1837. Pp. 85-90.) 



1833 HENRY, WALTER. Events of a military life: being recollections after 



Henry service in the Peninsular war, invasion of France, the East Indies, St. 



Helena, Canada, and elsewhere. Lond.: Pickering. 1843. 2:220- 

 227. 



An interesting account of the psychological effect of the Falls on a 

 British military surgeon. 



I have visited the Falls of Niagara four times; and on three 

 of these occasions in company with ladies — for the view of 

 anything grand or sublime in nature or art is not worth two 

 pence in selfish solitude, or rude male companionship, unembel- 

 lished by the sex, and I have noticed that the predominant 



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