. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . ander here In musing awe ; should tread the wondrous world. See all its store of inland waters hurled In one vast volume down Niagaras steep. Or calm behold them, in transparent sleep Where the blue hills of old Toronto shed Their evening shadow oer Ontarios bed. —Moore. The walk about Goat Island at Niagara Falls is probably-unsurpassed in the world for wonder and beauty. —Charles Dudley Warner. To paint the glories that come and go upon the falling,rushing waters, the artist must dip his brush in the rainbow,and when
. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . ander here In musing awe ; should tread the wondrous world. See all its store of inland waters hurled In one vast volume down Niagaras steep. Or calm behold them, in transparent sleep Where the blue hills of old Toronto shed Their evening shadow oer Ontarios bed. —Moore. The walk about Goat Island at Niagara Falls is probably-unsurpassed in the world for wonder and beauty. —Charles Dudley Warner. To paint the glories that come and go upon the falling,rushing waters, the artist must dip his brush in the rainbow,and when he has done his best he will not be believed bythose who have not seen his subject with their own eyes. —Art Journal. Days should be spent here in deep and happy seclusion,protected from the burning heat of the sun and regaled bylovely scenes of Nature, and the music of the sweetest waters,and in fellowship, at will, with the mighty Falls. Long, longI stayed, but all time was too short. I went, and I returned,and knew not how to go ! —Rev. Andrew Reed. »fe %■. The pure beauty of elegance and grace is the grand char-acteristic of the Falls. It is supremely artistic, a harmony, amasterpiece. The lower half of the watery wall is shroudedin the steam of the boiling gulf — a veil never rent or its core this eternal cloud seems fixed and still with excessof motion — still and intensely white. —Henry James, Jr., in Portraits of Places. These distinctive qualities — the great variety of the indige-nous perennials and annuals, the rare beauty of the old woods,35 and the exceeding loveliness of the rock foliage — I believe tobe the direct effect of the Falls, and as much a part of itsmajesty as the mist-cloud and the rainbow. — Frederick Law 01 nistead.
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