Niagara Falls 



1913 proverb, "Still waters run deep; " many hundreds of feet deep 



Alec-TVeedie j s j-^jg vvHirlpool, yet a barrel will continue turning round and 

 round for days upon its surface. 



The Whirlpool rapids are wonderful, and far more turbulent 

 than the whirlpool itself. They are naturally at the narrowest 

 part of the river, which is there spanned by two splendid railway 

 bridges. In the course of one mile the rapids make a drop of 

 over a hundred feet as the waves froth and foam and swirl over 

 one another. 



Strangely enough, not only does the water look like the waves 

 of the ocean beating upon the land in a storm, but there is almost 

 a sea smell in the air, although the water is really fresh. A 

 green, seaweedlike growth covers the rocks, and perhaps the smell 

 may proceed from that; in any case, it is distinctly noticeable. 



The clock struck six as we left the hotel at " Niagara " on 

 the American side, and wandered forth for our first peep at the 

 Falls before dinner. We passed through Prospect Park, heard 

 the swirl of the upper rapids, realised that evening was drawing 

 in with the strange rapidity it does in these climes ; and then all in 

 a moment we seemed to stand on the very brink of the American 

 Fall itself. 



This was Niagara. This mystic veil shrouded the widest, 

 noblest waterfall in the world ; for though report says the Victoria 

 Falls on the Zambezi are just as fine, it is in their height that 

 their wonder lies. 



We heard the rush, and stood still. 



It was a wonderful sensation suddenly to find oneself near 

 enough to the edge of the flow to be able to touch the water 

 with an umbrella, as it took its dive of a hundred and fifty feet 

 into the seething cauldron of froth and spray below. 



It is absolutely impossible to give any idea of the magnitude 

 of volume of that water, which, as we saw it, in the short twilight 

 and quickly gathering darkness of night, seemed weird in its 

 vastness, and eerie in its grey-blue opalescent charm. The great 



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