Niagara Falls 



I860 



Howells 



1860 



Taylor 



There was repose even in the peculiar traftic of Niagara when 

 we penetrated to a shop devoted to the sale of its bric-a-brac for 

 some photographs of the winter scenery, and we fancied a weird 

 surprise and a certain statuesque reluctance in the dealer. But 

 this may have been merely our fancy. I would insist only upon 

 the mute immobility of the birds on the feather fans behind the 

 glazed shelves, and a mystical remoteness in the Japanese objects 

 mingled with the fabrics of our own Indians and the imported 

 feldspar cups and vases. 



Our train went back to Buffalo through the early winter 

 sunset, crimson and cnmsoner over the rapids, and then purple 

 over the ice where the river began to be frozen again. This 

 color was so intense that the particles of ice along the brink were 

 like a wilding growth of violets — those candied violets you see 

 at the confectioner's. 



TAYLOR, Bayard. Home and abroad; a sketch-book of life, scenery, 

 and men. N. Y. : G. P. Putnam. 1 860. P. 483. 



In a paragraph in Landscapes of the world, Taylor says "As for cata- 

 racts, Niagara in tremendous volume, drowns all others. . . . Niagara 

 is the Titan in whose presence you stand dumb." 



1858-61 



Trollope 



1858-1861 



Trollope, Anthony. North America. Lond. : Chapman and 

 Hall. 1862. 1:136-152. Phila.: Lippincott. 1863. 1:101-113. 

 Anthony Trollope made several visits to Niagara in 1858-61. 



Of all the sights on this earth of ours which tourists travel to 

 see — at least of all those which I have seen — I am inclined to 

 give the palm to the Falls of Niagara. In the catalogue of such 

 sights I intend to include all buildings, pictures, statues, and won- 

 ders of art made by men's hands, and also all beauties of nature 

 prepared by the Creator for the delight of his creatures. This is a 

 long word; but, as far as my taste and judgment go, it is justi- 

 fied. I know no other one thing so beautiful, so glorious, and 

 so powerful. ... At Niagara there is that fall of waters 

 alone. But that fall is more graceful than Giotto's tower, more 



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