Niagara Falls 



1796 With additions and corrections. New York; Tiebout and O'Brien for 



WinterLotham Thomas Stephens. 1796. 1:183-184. 



Just a paragraph concerning the height, sound and spray of the Falls. 



1797 



Morse 



1799 



Stevens 



1804 



Smith 



1813 



Dunlop 



1813 



1813 



Smith 



1797 



Morse, Jedidiah. The American gazetteer, ... 2d ed., 

 corrected. Bost: S. Hall. 1797. 



1799 



Stevens, Abel. Life and times of Nathan Bangs, D. D. N. Y.: 

 Carlton and Porter. (1863) P. 35. 



A short description of Niagara Falls in 1 799, by a prominent Metho- 

 dist Episcopal clergyman. 



1804 



SMITH, Thomas. The wonders of nature and art; or, A concise 

 account of whatever is most curious and remarkable in the world : . . . 

 London; J. Walker, etc.. 1804. 9:219-223. 



Very similar to Brookes, only longer. Apparently based on some earlier 

 account. 



1813 



DUNLOP, WILLIAM. Recollections of the American war, 1812-14. 

 Toronto: Historical Publishing Co. 1905. Pp. 56-58. 



A brief but rather original account by an army surgeon stationed in 

 a medical boarding-house at Chippewa in the summer of 1814. 



(A) Gazetteer of the province of Upper Canada: to which is added an 

 appendix, describing the principal towns, fortifications and rivers in Lower 

 Canada. N. Y. : Prior and Dunning. 1813. 



SMITH, MlCHAEL. A geographical view of the province of Upper 

 Canada; and promiscuous remarks on the government; in two parts; with 

 an appendix containing a complete description of the Niagara Falls. 

 N. Y. Pelsue and Gould. 1813. Pp. 72-82. 



Many writers have attempted to describe this curiosity of 

 nature; yet all the descriptions that I have read, appear to me 

 not to be sufficiently illustrative or correct: I will therefore 

 describe it myself, in as plain a manner as possible, unadorned 

 with any fanciful strokes of rhetoric. 



In order to have a proper view of the falls, and adjacent parts, 



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