Niagara — Historical and Reminiscent 



state, progress, and prospects of the colony; with detailed and practical 1844 

 information for intending emigrants. 2d ed. Edinb. : A. and C. Black. Brown 

 1844. Pp. 90-92. 



A visit to Niagara. (Lit. liv. age, Nov. 2, 1844. 3:37.) 1844 



A quotation from the United Service Magazine describing an August 



visit. A lively, though rather cataloguing, description of the usual points 



of view and the usual experiences. 



1846 



CLINTON, G. W. Sketches of Niagara Falls and river by Cousin r , 1848 

 George. Buffalo. 1846. ° n 



French, Benjamin Franklin. Louisiana historical collections. 1846 

 N. Y.: Wiley and Putnam. 1846. 1:249-250. French 



A description of the English province of Carolana, by the Spaniards 

 called Florida, and the French La Louisiane,* as also of the great and 

 famous river Meschacebe or Mississippi, the five vast navigable lakes of 

 fresh water, and the parts adjacent . . . By Daniel Coxe. 



At the north-east end of this lake is another canal forty miles 

 long, and in most places a league broad, called by the natives 

 Niagara, having a delicate, level, beautiful, fertile country on 

 each side of it; but being passed about two-thirds of the way, it 

 is straitened by mighty rocks, and precipitates itself several 

 hundred feet, being the greatest cataract that hath ever yet come 

 to our knowledge, in the whole world. This lying within five 

 or six days' journey of Albany and Schenecteda (two remark- 

 able towns and fortifications of New York), and adjacent unto 

 our confederates or subjects the Five Nations, (by the French 

 called Irocois), especially the Sonnontovans (by some named 

 Senecas), the most populous of the five, I have received an 



*This account of Louisiana has been very carefully drawn up from Memoirs and 

 Journals kept by various persons sent into the Valley of the Mississippi, by D. Coxe. 

 The expedition fitted out by him, consisting of two ships, commanded by Capt. Barr, 

 were the first to sail up the Mississippi. (1598) 



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