Niagara Falls 



1843 side, expanding into foam ere they reach the deep channel where 

 01 they creep submissively away. 



1843 SlLLlMAN, Augustus E. A gallop among American scenery; or, 

 Silliman Sketches of American scenes and military adventure. N. Y. : D. Apple- 

 ton. 1843. Pp. 148-154. 



1844 



1844 Lewis, George. Impressions of America and the American churches : 

 Lewis from journal of the Rev. G. Lewis. Edinb. : Kennedy. 1845. 



Pp. 334-341. 



The author was one of a deputation from the Free Church of Scotland 

 to the United States. He was " impressed " with the Niagara as a fron- 

 tier river and with the insignificance of man, asv compared with the 

 grandeur of the Falls. 



1846 Raumer, Friedrich Ludwig Georg VON. America, and the 



Raumer American people. Tr. by William W. Turner. N. Y. : J. and H. G. 



Langley. 1846. Pp. 453-456. 



Personal observations written by a professor of history in the University 

 of Berlin who was at Niagara Falls in July, 1 844. 



I could have shouted with exultation; and my excited spirit 

 soared aloft, like the tones of an Eolian harp harmoniously 

 blending with the thunders of this miracle of nature. Immersion 

 in this sea of beauty seemed to renew the vigor and vivacity of 

 early years ; it was a fountain of rejuvenescence — such as the 

 pressure of dry categories, could never set flowing. There was 

 nothing frightful, horrible, oppressive, annihilating, or repulsive, 

 — but the beauty of nature in her noblest manifestation and the 

 most amazing variety. No painter could represent this world of 

 moving wonders in full truth and beauty; nor can any descrip- 

 tion be successful. For if I dwell on the wondrous unity and 

 harmony of all these phenomena, their multiplicity is lost sight 

 of; if this last is made prominent, the former disappears in the 

 fragile mosaic of a dry enumeration. 



It is not one, nor two water-falls; it is a whole series of 



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