NIAGARA FALLS AND VICINITY 



81 



rents may be seen from the upper walks in the Canadian park, and 

 the effectual erosion of the banks may also be observed. In many 

 cases the shores have been ballasted and otherwise protected against 

 the current. During an earlier period, when the falls were situated 

 farther north, and before the central part of the stream had been 

 deepened to its present extent, the water, then at the level of the 

 river above Goat island, flooded what is now the Oueen Victoria 



Fig. 19 Crest lines of Horseshoe falls. From the original tracing of the surveys by courtesy of 

 the Xew York state engineer and surveyor. 1 Terrapin rocks. 2 Former Table rock. 



park, and carved from the till the pronounced concave wall which 

 now bounds the park on the west. A local eddy, probably during 

 very recent times, carved the steep and still fresh semicircular cliff 

 which incloses the Dufferin islands. 



The fate of Goat island is not difficult to foresee. In a thousand 

 years from now, at the present rate of recession, the Horseshoe falls 



