Niagara Falls 



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Forster 



1868 

 Rose 



1868 

 Townsend 



writes: "We went everywhere at the Falls, and saw them in every 

 aspect. . . . Nothing in Turner's finest water-colour drawings, done 

 in his greatest day, is so ethereal, so imaginative, so gorgeous in colour, 

 as what I then beheld. I seemed to be lifted from the earth and to be 

 looking into Heaven." 



Rose, GEORGE. The great country; or, Impressions of America. 

 Lond.: Tinsley Bros. 1868. Pp. 266-271. 



A short account of a few days spent in the immediate neighborhood 

 of the cataract. 



Townsend, Frederick Trench. Ten thousand miles of travel, 

 sport, and adventure. Lond.: Hurst and Blackett. 1869. Pp. 57-59. 



An appreciative account of a September visit. 



1869 



Chester 



1869 



Chester, Greville John. Transatlantic sketches in the West 



Indies, South America, Canada, and the United States. Lond. 

 Elder. 1869. Pp. 279-282. 



Smith, 



I was prepared for unequalled grandeur, but I was not pre- 

 pared for the astonishing beauty of the great Falls and their 

 surroundings. The rapids above the descent, the huge ridges of 

 seething water, the rocky fir-clad islets, with their woods and 

 wild flowers, the rainbow-traversed clouds of spray, the black 

 rocks which bound the whirlpool below: these, with the Falls 

 themselves — those ever-moving, motionless, changeless, yet 

 ever-changing walls of deep sea-green water, do indeed make up 

 a scene of matchless beauty, such as can nowhere else be found. 

 Standing on the brink of the Canada Fall and gazing into the 

 center of the great " horseshoe," where monotony and continuity 

 seem to strive with ever-varying progress, the mind is affected 

 with the deepest sense of peace and repose, and seems to catch 

 the reflected image of Eternity itself. Deep, too, and deeply 

 impressive as are the voices of these many waters, painful and 

 oppressive they nowhere are; and these, too, speak peace to 

 the soul. 



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