Canada, Britain's largest colony; with a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador; . all. The latter is 167 feet highand 1,060 feet wide. The enormous volume ofwater pouring over both these all day long, all theyear round, save when impeded by ice, is estimatedat many millions of cubic feet per minute ! Harnessing the Palls. To utilise the immense force of Niagaras flood,power-houses have been erected near the falls; andhere, by means of canals, the water is conductedinto large wheel-pits. Electric power is supplied from these houses tonumerous manufactories and mills, and is evenemployed to run t
Canada, Britain's largest colony; with a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador; . all. The latter is 167 feet highand 1,060 feet wide. The enormous volume ofwater pouring over both these all day long, all theyear round, save when impeded by ice, is estimatedat many millions of cubic feet per minute ! Harnessing the Palls. To utilise the immense force of Niagaras flood,power-houses have been erected near the falls; andhere, by means of canals, the water is conductedinto large wheel-pits. Electric power is supplied from these houses tonumerous manufactories and mills, and is evenemployed to run the street cars of Buffalo, overtwenty miles away. The Cave of the Winds. There are several interesting excursions to bemade at Niagara. One may go in a little steamercalled the Maid of the Mist up to the very footof the falls and be drenched in spray, or an excitingtrip may be taken right behind the water of partof the American Fall. One end of the latter is cut off by a tiny isletknown as Luna Island, and below this a venture-some person years ago discovered that the rush of. 68 CANADA. water had hollowed out the cliff at the back somuch as to form a large cave. Through this opening visitors are conducted bya guide. Suitably clad in oilskins, because ofthe spray, they first traverse a slippery, frail-looking wooden bridge at the base of the fall, andthen, reaching the entrance to the cav^e, join handsand sidle along a narrow ledge of rock with themighty volume of water behind them, and thewind and spray choking and blinding them. At the other end they come out on a woodenstairway which runs up the cliff face not farfrom where they started. The Whirlpool Rapids. Lower down, below the Suspension Bridge, arethe famous Whirlpool Rapids, in attempting toswim which Captain Webb lost his life. Here, in a narrow gorge, a mile long, theNiagara River is forced at such a speed tliat thewater is actually twenty feet higher in the centrethan at the edges ! At the end of the rapids is the W
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