Niagara Falls 



1831 



1831 Wilson, Alexander and Bonaparte, Charles Lucien. 



Wilson and American ornithology; or the natural history of the birds of the United 

 States. Ed. by Robert Jameson. 4 vol. Edinburgh : Constable and Co. 

 1831. 1:23. 



Wilson was born at Paisley, Scotland, in 1 766, and emigrated to the 

 United States in 1 794. His visit to Niagara was made in 1 804, four 

 years before the publication of the first volume of his "American Orni- 

 thology." His work was completed by Charles Lucien Bonaparte — 

 nephew of the great Napoleon - — who lived near Philadelphia from 1822 

 to 1828 and made a careful study of the birds of that locality. 



The celebrated Cataract of Niagara is a noted place of resort 

 for the bald eagle, as well on account of the fish procured there, 

 as for the numerous carcasses of squirrels, deer, bears, and various 

 other animals, that, in their attempts to cross the river above the 

 Falls, have been dragged into the current, and precipitated down 

 that tremendous gulf, where, among the rocks that bound the 

 Rapids below, they furnish a rich repast for the vulture, the raven, 

 and the bald eagle. 



1834 



1834 * Wied-Neuwied, Maximilian Alexander Philipp, Pr'mz von. 



Wied- Travels in the interior of North America, with numerous engravings on 



Neuwied wooc [ anc J a large map ; translated by H. Evans Lloyd. Lond. : Acker- 

 man & Co. 1 843. Pp. 493-496. 



At a short distance from the village of Niagara, the river 

 begins to flow in an uneven rocky bed with a rapid 

 descent, and its whole surface is, in many places, in violent com- 

 motion, covered with white foam, and, as it were, boiling, in 

 consequence of its breaking in high waves against the masses of 

 rock. Portions of these rocks, the larger of which deserve the 

 name of islands, are covered with pines, some green, others in a 

 decayed state: of these rocky islets there are fifteen above the 

 falls. The pines being frequently broken and snapped, and here 



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