Travelers* Original Accounts: I80J-1840 



JoiNVILLE, F. F. P. L. M. D'O., Prince de. Memoirs, vieux 1838 

 souvenirs, of the Prince de Joinville ; tr. from the French by Lady Mary Joinville 

 Loyd. N. Y.: Macmillan. 1895. P. 116. 



A very brief account of a visit to the Falls in 1 838 apparently. He 

 writes: "After Philadelphia came Niagara wonderful and peerless. I 

 admired its picturesque grandeur, but I admired the rapids before the fall 

 every bit as much." 



LOGAN, James. Notes of a journey through Canada, the United 1838 

 States of America, and the West Indies. Edinb. : 1 838. Pp. 1 38-1 40. Logan 



1838 



A day at the falls. (Colburn's new mo. mag., 1 838. 4:482-483.) 1838 

 The author's visit was made in July, twelve or fourteen years before 

 the date of publication. In his description of the Falls he notes the exist- 

 ence of a billiard room on Goat Island. 



1839 



Marry AT, FREDERICK, Captain. Diary in America, with remarks on 1839 

 its institutions. Lond. : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman. arrya 

 1839. 1:159-165. 



As I stood on the brink above the falls, continuing for a con- 

 siderable time to watch the great mass of water tumbling, 

 dancing, capering, and rushing wildly along, as if in a hurry to 

 take the leap and delighted at it, I could not help wishing that 

 I too had been made of such stuff as would have enabled me to 

 have joined it; with it to have rushed innocuously down the 

 precipice; to have rolled uninjured into the deep unfathomable 

 gulf below, or to have gamboled in the atmosphere of spray, 

 which rose again in a dense cloud from its recesses. For about 

 half an hour more I continued to watch the rolling v/aters and 

 then I felt a slight dizziness and a creeping sensation come over 

 me — that sensation arising from strong excitement, and the 

 same, probably, that occasions the bird to fall into the jaws of the 

 snake. This is a feeling which, if too long indulged in, becomes 

 irresistible, and occasions a craving desire to leap into the flood 

 of rushing waters. It increased upon me every minute; and 

 retreating from the brink, I turned my eyes to the surrounding 

 foliage, until the effect of the excitement had passed away. I 



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