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1890 of Niagara ascending high and far above, made us feel somehow 

 as if we had been transported to fairyland. 



We cannot, even at this lapse of time, find words to express 

 fittingly our feelings — the feelings which crept over us as we 

 approached the mighty cataract; where the waters of Lake Erie 

 and the other Upper Lakes find their outlet into Lake Ontario 

 over a space less than half a mile in width. 



Our thoughts, our feelings, expressed in deepest silence, rose 

 upwards, as it were, from 



M Nature up to Nature's God." 



Such were our thoughts, our feelings, as we strolled down from 

 the village of Drummondville on that April Sunday morning, 

 over forty years ago, with the song of birds and the thunders of 

 the cataract sounding in our ears, and blossom and bloom over- 

 head, to have our first full view of the Falls of Niagara. 



"Proud demon of the waters!" we exclaimed. 'Thou, 

 around whose dark and stormy brow circles the rainbow's varied 

 gem! " There we stood for the first time, gazing in wonder and 

 in silent admiration on that mighty mass of water as it rolled in 

 majestic splendour over its rock-bound summit, in an almost 

 unbroken wave into the yawning whirlpool below! 



" Come," we said, " expressive silence, muse its praise.** 

 There have been many accounts descriptive of the Falls of 

 Niagara and the surrounding country, but the best is that con- 

 tained in the journal of Captain Enys, of the 29th Regiment, 

 written over one hundred years ago, in 1787. It gives a true 

 account, from Fort Sclosser, on the American side, two miles 

 above the Falls, down to the foot of the Falls, and for four miles 

 down on the Canadian shore. The whole river bank, on both 

 sides of the Niagara, was then an unbroken forest. Captain 

 Enys' journal was obtained from his son in New Zealand, and 

 is now deposited in the Canadian Archives, Ottawa. [See 

 Douglas Brymner's Report for 1886, page ccxxvi.] 



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