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Photograph by Ernest Fox 



NIAGARA FALLS IN ITS WINTER ARMOR 

 Impressive as Niagara is when its rush of waters appals the beholder and clouds of spray rise from 

 the chaos, in the midst of which a cockle-shell boat impudently noses the flood, it does not surpass the 

 view in winter when the Frost King has spanned the river with heaving masses of ice and concealed 

 behind alabaster columns the mighty torrent as it thunders toward the sea. 



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