Travelers' Original Accounts Since 1840 



and falling spray! We saw it again, daily and nightly, but 1881 

 seldom again like that. We saw it blown along in clouds; we ar y 

 saw it like a great veil hiding the whole face of the Fall; we 

 saw it one evening at sunset leaping and sparkling like a fountain 

 of liquid gold, — but only once again did we see it rise up in 

 that shape, the dim and ghostly guardian of the night. No 

 mortal eye has ever beheld the base of the great Horseshoe Falls ; 

 it is for ever veiled and lost in a wild white chaos of foam, tossed 

 up in the fury of its headlong plunge, and hiding its depths in 

 mystery. 



1 The Indians hold that Niagara claims its yearly meed of 

 victims. It may be so. Or does Niagara thus avenge itself on 

 the civilization that has trimmed and tamed its forests and dressed 

 it up in tinsel-coloured lights? But the thunder of waters thun- 

 ders on eternally, and before its terrible sublimity we are dumb, 

 as in the mighty diapason our feeble voices are lost." 



1882 



CAMPUZANO, D. Juan BUSTAMENTE Y. Del Atlantico al Pacifico: 1882 

 Apuntes e Impresiones de un Viaje a traves de los Estados Unidos. Campuzano 

 Madrid. 1885. Pp. 346-364. 



The author's visit was made in August, 1 882. He describes the cata- 

 racts, the rapids and the whirlpool, and gives the story of Francis Abbott. 



1883 



FAITHFULL, EMILY. Three visits to America. N. Y.: Fowler and 1883 

 Wells. (1884.) Pp. 395-396. Faithfull 



The account deals with a new cantilever bridge and the food at Rosti's 

 rather than with the Falls. 



Holley's Niagara and the other cataracts of the world. (Cent. Jan. 1883 

 1883. 3:472.) 



An editorial review quoted below. 



*' The author of this strikingly bound and profusely illustrated work is 

 known as the writer of a guide-book to Niagara Falls, which indeed fur- 

 nished the basis of the more elaborate volume. In an article contributed 

 several years ago to this magazine, he showed his familiarity with every 



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