Niagara — Historical and Reminiscent 



1854 



Roy, Jennet. History of Canada. . . . Montreal: Ramsey. 1854 



1854. Pp. 226-229. Roy 

 An account written for " British American youth " and very well done. 



1855 



LACHLAN, Maj. R. Account of an extraordinary sudden fall in the 1855 

 waters of the Niagara River. (Can. jour. (Can. inst., ser. 1 ) Apr., Lachlan 



1855. 3:204-205.) 



LlLLIE, A. Canada: physical, economic, and social. Toronto: 1855 

 Maclear and Co. 1855. Pp. 65-67. Lillie 



Meadows, J. From the stone tower at Niagara. (Lit. liv. age, 1855 



Aug. 11, 1855. 46:351.) Meadows 



Quotation from the Traveller describing a June visit. 



(Niagara in winter.) (Harp, mo., Feb., 1855. 10:410-411.) 1855 



Another exquisite " Easy Chair " description of a winter visit. 



1856 



Mix, EBENEZER. Tragedy of the Devil's Hole. (Seaver, Life of 1856 

 Mary Jemison, De-he-wa-mis. 4th ed. N. Y. and Auburn. 1856. Mix 

 App. I, pp. 273-277.) 



An account of an Indian grant of land at the Falls. 



The escape of Mr. Stedman, not only from the iron grasp of 

 one of their most athletic and powerful warriors, but from the 

 shower of rifle balls discharged at him from the rifles of their best 

 and most unerring marksmen, confounded the Indians with wonder 

 and fear, furnishing a subject whereon to feed their most absurd, 

 superstitious whims. They at once pronounced him a favorite 

 of the Great Spirit; and to appease its wrath, made Stedman a 

 present of the tract of land he had encompassed in his retreat to 

 Fort Schlosser; to wit, beginning at the Devil's Hole; thence 

 running east, to Gill creek; thence southerly down the creek, to 

 the Niagara River; thence west, down the river, to Niagara 

 Falls; and thence northerly, still bounding on the river, to the 

 place of beginning ; being a tract about two miles wide, and three 

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