Chapter IV 



TRAVELERS* ORIGINAL ACCOUNTS SINCE 1840 



1840 



STEELE, ELIZA R. A summer journey in the West. N. Y.: S.Taylor. 1840 

 1841. Pp. 54-65. SteeIe 



A minute description by a quick and sympathetic observer, who visited 

 the Falls in 1840. 



1841 



BONNYCASTLE, Sir RlCHARD H. The Canadas in 1841. Lond.: 1841 

 Henry Colburn. 1842. 1:215-260. Bonnycastle 



A detailed description, in pleasant style, of the various points of view 

 at Niagara. The author was a good observer and from long residence 

 in the Niagara region as a British government engineer and road-maker 

 competent to speak with knowledge and authority concerning conditions 

 around the Falls. 



DlCKENS, CHARLES. American notes for general circulation. Lond.: 1841 

 Chapman and Hall. 1842. 2:176-180. Dickens 



. . . Between five and six next morning, we arrived at 

 Buffalo, where we breakfasted; and being too near the Great 

 Falls to wait patiently anywhere else, we set off by the train, the 

 same morning at nine o'clock, to Niagara. 



It was a miserable day; chilly and raw; a damp mist falling; 

 and the trees in that northern region quite bare and wintry. 

 Whenever the train halted, I listened for the roar; and was 



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