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was but one deduction — the total absence of anything approach- 1841 

 ing to solitude. The rail-roads of America have rendered urney 

 Niagara only too accessible; and Goat island is no longer the 

 wild resort of adventurous lovers of scenery, but a popular 

 promenade for the gentility of Boston, New York, and 

 Philadelphia. 



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The limestone rocks in the immediate neighbourhood of the 

 falls, are some of them geodiferous, and others cornetiferous. 

 The former are filled with little cavities containing crystals of 

 sulphate of lime; and latter present fragments of hornstone, and 

 certain fossil remains of a zoophite which is shaped like the top 

 of a horn. 



1850 



Agassiz, Louis. Lake Superior: its physical character, vegetation, 1850 

 and animals, compared with those of other and similar regions. With a Agassiz 

 narrative of the tour by J. Elliot Cabot. . . . Bost. : Gould, Kendall, 

 and Lincoln. 1850. Pp. 12-20. 



Lectures on the geology and botany of the region delivered by Professor 

 Agassiz in June, I 848, together with an account of the activities of the 

 company, among them a moonlight bath in the Hermit's Fall. A list of 

 the forest trees at Niagara is appended. 



1853 



PATTON, EDMUND. A glimpse at the United States and Northern 1853 

 States of America, with the Canadas, comprising their rivers, lakes and Patton 

 falls during the autumn of 1852. . . . Lond. : Effingham Wilson. 

 1853. Pp. 91-92. 



The Canadian side, on which the Clifton Hotel is situated, 

 affords, perhaps, the most perfect view of the entire falls, giving 

 the very breadth and length of the millions of tons of water, in 

 rapid succession, rushing impetuously into the abyss beneath, a 

 depth of some hundred feet. " Iris Island," commonly called 

 44 Goat's Island " divides the fall into two unequal parts, which 



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