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ever happen, and the lad who takes you over seems to do it with 1858-61 

 sufficient ease. The walk up the hill on the other side is another ro ope 

 thing. It is very steep, and for those who have not good locomo- 

 tive power of their own, will be found to be disagreeable. In the 

 full season, however, carriages are generally waiting there. In 

 so short a distance I have always been ashamed to trust to other 

 legs than my own, but I have observed that Americans are always 

 dragged up. I have seen single young men of from eighteen to 

 twenty-five, from whose outward appearance no story of idle, 

 luxurious life can be read, carried about alone in carriages over 

 distances which would be counted as nothing by any healthy 

 English lady of fifty. None but the old invalids should require 

 the assistance of carriages in seeing Niagara, but the trade in 

 carriages is to all appearances the most brisk trade there. 



Having mounted the hill on the Canada side, you will walk on 

 toward the falls. As I have said before, you will from this 

 side look directly into the full circle of the upper cataract, while 

 you will have before you, at your left hand, the whole expanse of 

 the lesser fall. For those who desire to see all at a glance, who 

 wish to comprise the whole with their eyes, and to leave nothing 

 to be guessed, nothing to be surmised, this no doubt is the best 

 point of view. . . . 



Here, on this side, you walk on to the very edge of the cataract, 

 and, if your tread be steady and your legs firm, you dip your 

 foot into the water exactly at the spot where the thin outside 

 margin of the current reaches the rocky edge and jumps to join 

 the mass of the fall. The bed of white foam beneath is certainly 

 seen better here than elsewhere, and the green curve of the water 

 is as bright here as when seen from the wooden rail across. But 

 nevertheless I say again that that wooden rail is the one point from 

 whence Niagara may be best seen aright. 



Close to the cataract, exactly at the spot from whence in 

 former days the Table Rock used to project from the land over the 



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