Niagara Falls 

 1841 Deluge — Light — came rushing on Creation at the word of 



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This is perhaps the most widely quoted of the modern descriptions of 

 the Falls. 



1841 Farley, Rev. Frederick A. A visit to Niagara. (Lynch, Anna C. 



Farle y The Rhode Island book. Providence: Fuller. 1841. Pp. 69-80.) 



After recounting the delights of the journey from New York, the 

 author describes his emotions at the sight of the Falls. He felt the visit 

 to Niagara was " one of the holiest pilgrimages of life." 



1841 STURGE, JOSEPH. A visit to the United States in 1841. Lond. : 



Sturge Hamilton, Adams. 1 842. P. 111. 



No attempt to describe the Falls, " a spectacle of nature in her grandest 

 aspects which mocks the limited capacity of man to conceive or to 

 describe." 



1841 WORCESTER, James. Cataract of Niagara. (Literary souvenir; a 



Worcester weekly journal of literature, science and the arts. Lowell. June 19, 

 1841. 2:185-186.) 



Taken from a manuscript book of travel which had been intended for 

 publication but was withdrawn. It consists for the most part of quota- 

 tions from Howison's " Upper Canada." 



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1842 GODLEY, John ROBERT. Letters from America. Lond.: John 



Godley Murray. 1844. 1:132-139. 



Another English visitor. 



Not that, to speak the truth, the sound is near so great as I 

 expected; I do not think we heard it till we were within half a 

 mile ; and at this moment, though every pane of glass in the house 

 is rattling, and every article of furniture is shaking, still the noise 

 of the falls, which are distant about three hundred yards, is by 

 no means aggressive or overpowering; on the contrary, it is a 

 kind of deep, massive boom, like distant thunder. 



Now I am not going to do anything so foolish as to attempt 

 a description of the Falls, nor would you be much wiser if I 

 did. I will only say that if I was disappointed at the first glance, 



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