Niagara Falls 



1843 takes away the power of speech by its grandeur and sublimity, 

 contrasted with the eddying river above, the rippling current 

 below, and the rainbow, a pledge of God to mankind that the 

 destruction from the waters shall not again visit the earth. I 

 say, altogether it takes away language as well as thought: and 

 in this enraptured condition one is almost capable of prophesying 

 — standing as it were in a trance, unable to speak. 



I have been at Lundy's Lane and at Chippewa. ... I 

 have seen no memento of that political era between these two 

 countries — divided by that natural phenomenon between the 

 two, as if heaven had considered it too much for one. There 

 I have been received as a friend with friendly greeting, and I 

 ejaculate a prayer to God, that this state of temper may be per- 

 petual, and that the land of war and of garments rolled in blood 

 may never again be exhibited. 



Adams was at the Falls in 1843 and made the speech just quoted at 

 Buffalo a few days after his visit to the cataract. 



1843 MOORE, GEORGE. Journal of a voyage across the Atlantic; with 



Moore notes on Canada and United States ... in 1 844. Lond. : Printed 



for private circulation, 1845. Pp. 59—62. 



Oh my God! how I was stunned and unable to comprehend 

 the vastness of the scene! It was not until I reached Table 

 Rock, and looked upon the fall of bright green water, that it 

 came upon me in its full might and majesty. Niagara was at 

 once stamped upon my heart an image of beauty, to remain there 

 changeless and indelible until it ceases to beat. 



The record of a visit made in September, 1 843. 



1843 Ossoli, Sarah Margaret Fuller, Marchesa d'. Summer on 



Ossoli the lakes, in 1843. . . . Bost. : Little and Brown; N. Y. : Francis. 



1844. Pp. 1-13. 



Niagara, June 10, 1843. 



Since you are to share with me such foot-notes as may be 

 made on the pages of my life during this summer's wanderings, 

 I should not be quite silent as to this magnificent prologue to the, 



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