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more musical. It is neither rumbling nor sharp. It is clear, 1899 

 plangent, silvery. It is so like the voice of a steep brook Va " 



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— much magnified, but not made coarser or more harsh — that, 

 after we have known it, each liquid call from a forest hillside 

 will seem, like the odor of grape-vines, a greeting from Niagara. 

 It is an inspiriting, an exhilarating sound, like freshness, coolness, 

 vitality itself made audible. And yet it is a lulling sound. When 

 we have looked out upon the American rapids for many days, 

 it is hard to remember contented life amid motionless surround- 

 ings; and so, when we have slept beside them for many nights, 

 it is hard to think of happy sleep in an empty silence. 



Still another kind of music is audible at Niagara. It must be 

 listened for on quiet nights, but then it will be heard. It is like 

 the voice of an orchestra so very far away that its notes are 

 attenuated to an incredible delicacy and are intermittently per- 

 ceived, as though wafted upon variable zephyrs. It is the most 

 subtile, the most mysterious music in the world. What is its 

 origin? Why should we ask? Such fairy-like sounds ought 

 not to be explained. Their appeal is to the imagination only. 

 They are so faint, so far away, that they almost escape the ear, 

 as the lunar bow and the fluted tints of the American Fall almost 

 escape the eye. And yet we need not fear to lose them, for 

 they are as real as the deep bass of the cataracts. 



1901 



Annotated time table of the tour through Canada of their Royal 1901 

 Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York. 

 October, 1901. 



WALDRON, HoLMAN D. Niagara Falls in half-tone. Text by Hoi- 1901 

 man D. Waldron. . . . Portland, Me. Chisholm. 1901. Waldron 



Fine views and description of the Falls. 



1905 



HURET, Jules. En Amerique: de San Francisco au Canada. Paris: 1905 

 Charpentier. 1905. Pp. 329-337. Hurei 



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