Travelers Original Accounts Since 1840 



1887 



Wallace 



drifts it aside, and allows the great central gulf of falling water 

 to be seen nearly from top to bottom — a most impressive sight. 



1888 

 Gray 



1888 



1888 

 Pond 



1888 



GRAY, DAVID. Letters, poems and selected prose writings. Buf. : 

 Courier Co. 1888. Pp. 347-351. 



A sympathetic description of the Falls on a February midnight. He 

 compares them to a battle around icy fortifications. 



Niagara Falls sketch book. Buffalo: Sumner. 1888. 



POND, CHESTER E. The Falls of Niagara. Our school of sub- 

 limity . . . Topeka, Kan. : 1 888. 



The description of the various points of interest is divided into nine 

 lessons. The author feels that many days should be spent at the Falls 

 and along the river " in a thoughtful and childlike state of receptivity." 



1889 



Ballou 



1889 



Arnold 



1889 



BALLOU, MATURIN M. Footprints of travels; or, Journeyings in 

 many lands. Bost. : Ginn. 1889. P. 2. 



ARNOLD, Sir EDWIN. Seas and lands. N. Y.: Longmans, Green. 

 1891. Pp. 41-44. 



A poetical description of a visit made in September, 1889. 



Before the balcony in which this is written the Great Cataract 

 of America is thundering, smoking, glittering with green and 

 white rollers and rapids, hurling the waters of a whole continent 

 in splendour and speed over the sharp ledges of the long brown 

 rock by which Erie " the Broad " steps proudly down to Ontario 

 " the Beautiful." Close at hand on our left — not indeed farther 

 removed than some 600 or 700 yards — the smaller but very 

 imposing American Fall speaks with the louder voice of the two, 

 because its coiling spirals of twisted and furious flood crash in 

 full impulse of descent upon the talus of massive boulders heaped 

 up at its foot. The resounding impact of water on rock, the 

 clouds of water-smoke which rise high in air while the river 

 below is churned into a whirling cream of eddy and surge and 



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