232 THE UTILIZATION OF NIAGARA. 



Let me, by way of conclusion, emphasize the truth that this splendid 

 engineering work leaves all the genuine beauty of Niagara untouched. 

 It may even help to conserve the scene as it exists today, for the ter- 

 rific weight and rush of waters over the Horseshoe Fall is eating it 

 away and breaking its cliff into a series of receding slopes and rapids; 

 so that even a slight diminution of the whelming mass of wave will 

 to that extent lessen disruption and decay. Be that so or not so, those 

 of us who are lovers of engineering can now at Niagara gratify that 

 taste in the unpretentious place where some of this vast energy is 

 reclaimed for human use, and then as ever join with those who, not 

 more than ourselves, love natural beauty, and find with them renewed 

 pleasure and delight in the majestic, organ-toned, and eternal cataract. 



