Niagara Falls 



1898 SULTE, BENJAMIN. The valley of the Grand river, 1600-1650. 



Suite (Royal Society of Canada, proc. and trans., May, 1 898. 2d ser. 4: 1 09.) 



1898 WALDRON, HoLMAN D. With pen and camera at Niagara Falls; 

 WaWron ^ by H D Waldron. Portland, Me. : Chisholm. 1 898. 



1899 



1899 BEERS, J. H. History of the Great Lakes. Chicago: Beers. 1899. 

 Bee » 1 :27-32. 



Quotations from Hennepin, Trollope, Bryant, Hawthorne, N. P. Willis, 

 Arnold, Garfield, and Dickens. 



1899 DUNLAP, ORRIN E. Ice bridge in the Niagara gorge. (Eng. news, 



Dunlap Feb. 9, 1899. 41:82.) 



The Grand Trunk bridge was threatened and the lives of three persons 

 endangered by what was considered the greatest ice bridge Niagara had 

 had in many years. 



1899 History of the Great Lakes. Chicago: Beers. 1899. Vol.1. See 



index. 



An account, historical, geological, and anecdotal, together with quota- 

 tions from various authors. 



1899 MlSNER, Charles E. My experience on the great ice bridge in the 



Misner gorge of the Niagara river at Niagara Falls, January 22, 1899. (Home 



mag., Mar., 1899. 12:239-242.) 



On Sunday, January 22, 1 899, my friend, Miss Bessie Hall, 

 and myself decided to visit Niagara Falls and cross, if possible, 

 over the ice bridge. We found perhaps fifteen persons on the 

 ice. I was very anxious to cross, but here Miss Hall faltered. 

 After a little persuasion she agreed to follow. So we started; 

 little did we know how we should return. 



The ice at this point, towering as high as thirty and forty feet, 

 was very rough, then again we would come to patches probably 

 fifty feet long where the ice would range from the size of a tea- 

 cup to pieces twenty-five feet in diameter. There was no path 

 cut in the ice as the bridge had only formed a day or two before. 

 Over this jagged ice we picked our way to perhaps 200 yards 

 from the boat landing. Here we sat down on a large boulder 



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