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air that the steamer settles several inches deeper in it 

 than she does in the clear waters farther down. After 

 turning away and floating down the stream a few hundred 

 yards, as though baffled in her attempt to enter the roaring 

 portal, the steamer usually turns back again towards 

 Goat island and makes a second advance into the spray 

 and foam. After the second approach she steams rapidly 

 down the centre of the river keeping well out from the 

 west shore where there are some dangerous rocks opposite 

 the American fall. Before reaching the graceful arch 

 of the Park bridge, she swings around to the west and 

 lands on the Canadian side at a bench or terrace of upper 

 Medina sandstone which rises but little above the water. 

 When the main fall was passing the front of the American 

 fall the crest line was unusually wide, with a consequent 

 thinning of the water sheet. The soundings in this part 

 of the gorge show the deepest part of the channel to be 

 nearer the eastern side, indicating that the heaviest water 

 fell along that line. Toward the west side in Carter cove 

 and south of it the water must have been shallower and 

 lacked power to remove the harder thin layers which 

 now form the bench at that place. 



Trip to Falls View. 



In many respects the grandest and certainly the most 

 comprehensive view of the falls and of the river, both 

 above and below the falls, is obtained from a point called 

 Falls View on the Canadian side on the edge of the 

 high bluff near the Loretto convent. To reach this spot 

 by the easiest route, the visitor crosses the park bridge 

 and walks up the ferry road from the Clifton hotel to the 

 street railway just opposite Victoria Park station. The 

 westbound car goes out Lundy lane to the Stamford 

 road, which runs south and southeast along the top of 

 the Niagara Falls moraine. A few steps from the corner 

 is the monument on the battlefield of Lundy Lane (July 

 25, 1 8 14). On the Stamford road the car follows at first 

 a little east of the crest and farther on a little west of it 

 and for half a mile or more the crest of the ridge has the 

 Lundy or Dana beach resting on it as a summit gravel bar. 

 At Falls View one looks down upon the whole scene of the 

 river and rapids above the falls and into the caldron and 

 canyon below. From this point one can make an interest- 



