Niagara Falls 



1864 Sala, George Augustus. My diary in America in the midst of 

 Sala war. Lond.: Tinsley. 1865. 1:163-213. 



Four chapters entitled, " Niagara in Winter," "After the Sunshine," 

 " Niagara in Summer," and "A Night at Niagara," based on letters to 

 the Daily Telegraph and on notes and a diary kept during 1 864. The 

 descriptions are fine and the whole account has the merit of being " dif- 

 ferent." The author has caught well the life, environment and atmos- 

 phere of the scene; his story is filled with human interest. 



1865 



1865 Russell, William Howard. Canada; its defences, condition, and 

 Ru»sell resources; being a third and concluding volume of "My diary, north 



and south." Lond.: Bradbury and Evans. 1865. Pp. 28—52. 



The author was the well-known war correspondent of the London 

 Times. He writes effectively of Niagara and in an original way. 



It was past noon ere the train once more began its contest with 

 the snow — now conquering, now stubbornly resisted and 

 brought to a standstill : — the pace exceedingly slow, the scenery 

 that of undulating white tablecloths, the society dull. 



The journey to Niagara was as unpleasant as very bad 

 travelling and the absence of anything to see could make it. 

 The train contained many soldiers or volunteers going back to 

 their people, who discussed the conduct of the war with earnest- 

 ness and acuteness ; but though we were so far north, I could not 

 hear any of them very anxious about the negro. 



There was little to be seen of the towns at which we halted, 

 and our journey was continued from one to the other monoto- 

 nously enough. The weary creeping of the train, the foul atmos- 

 phere, the delays, however inevitable and unavoidable, rather 

 spoiled one's interest in the black smoky-looking cities on the 

 white plains through which we passed; and night found us still 

 *' scrooging on," and occasionally stopping and digging out. 

 Thus we passed by Rochester and the Genesee Falls, which seem 

 extensively used up in mill-working, and arrived at Buffalo 



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