Niagara Falls 



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Coircttant 



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Butler 



built amid the very waters of the cataract, so that one can stand 

 on the outside gallery and look down upon the Falls beneath. 

 Goat Island is happily intersected with good drives and walks, 

 laid out with sufficiently fair taste through the natural forest, and 

 seats are placed at intervals for the accommodation of visitors. 

 It is no disparagement to the manner in which the grounds have 

 been ornamented to say that a good English landscape gardener 

 would convert the island into the gem of the world. The orna- 

 mentation need not be overdone; it should be congruous and in 

 keeping with the Falls, which nature has embellished with such 

 infinity of colouring. As it is, the island is much visited. Strange 

 enough, the softest whispered vows can be heard amid the 

 thunder of Niagara, and it is believed that many marriages owe 

 their happy inspiration to inadvertent walking and talking in these 

 secluded yet much-haunted groves. Sawmills, papermills, and 

 manufactories delight the utilitarian as he gazes on the Rapids 

 which have so long been wasting their precious waterpower, and 

 it is not unlikely that a thriving town may grow up to distressing 

 dimensions on the American side of the stream, at all events. 



1S66 



COMETTANT, Jean PlERRE Oscar. Voyage pittoresque et anec- 

 dotique dans le Nord et le Sud des Etats-Unis d'Amerique. Paris: 1 866. 

 Pp. 146-170. 



Comparison of Niagara in the time of Chateaubriand and today. 

 Account of the drainage area and volume, and the Indians and their 

 goods. The writer saw the Falls from above and below and on both 

 sides. He went behind the sheet and through the cave of the winds. 

 He gives the tales of the Hermit of the Niagara, of Blondin, Sam Patch, 

 the Michigan, etc. The account contains a view of the Horseshoe Fall 

 designed by J. Noel and engraved by Outhwaite. 



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BuTLER, W. F. The great lone land; a narrative of travel and 

 adventure in the north-west of America. Lond. : Low, Marston, Low, 

 Searle. 1872. P. 25. 



No attempt at description of the scenery, but in-season activities are 

 contrasted with January desolation. 



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