Travelers* Original Accounts Since 1840 



1870 



HUGHES, Thomas. Vacation rambles. Lond. : Macmillan. 1895. 1870 



Pp. 146-150. Hughe, 



An intimate, gossipy letter, but without, on the whole, a great deal 

 about the Falls. The author went behind the Falls at night and saw the 

 moon through the falling waters. He writes an interesting description 

 of the current baths in the rapids. 



We had a bath in the rush just above the Falls; you have a 

 little room through which a slice some four feet wide of the 

 water is allowed to rush, . . . and let the water seize and 

 tear at you, which it does with a vengeance, tugging as if it 

 would carry off your legs and pull you in two in the middle. 

 You can get out of it in a moment by just slewing yourself round, 

 and the sensation is marvelously delicious. 



1871 



MARSHALL, CHARLES. The Canadian dominion. Lond.: Long- 1871 

 mans, Green. 1871. Pp. 85-92. Marshall 



A fine description of the Falls. Of his trip behind the Falls on a 

 moonlight night, the author says: " It was a spectacle never to be for- 

 gotten." His clear impressions of the accessibility of the Falls are quoted 

 below. 



It is one of the delightful peculiarities of the Niagara Falls 

 that you may walk with perfect safety along the brink of the 

 waters, either on the mainland or on the islands that rise from 

 the flood just before it leaps the abyss. You can stoop and cool 

 your hand in the clear water at the very instant it falls from 

 sight. You may stand on the smooth limestone over which the 

 waters roll when a west wind blows, and look straight down into 

 the falling flood at your side. You may touch with your cane 

 the rock over which the flood is passing, then, letting go, see it 

 instantly disappear. It will come up to the surface of the river 

 at the whirlpool probably, three miles down the river. 



The beautiful stream permits itself to be toyed with. Its 



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