. Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast. all of bright-greenwater!—that it cameupon me in its fullmight and , when I felt how-near to my Creator Iwas standing, the firsteffect, and the endur-ing one — instant andlasting — of the tre-mendous spectacle,was Peace. Peace of mind, tranquillity, calm IecoUections of the dead,great thoughts o
. Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast. all of bright-greenwater!—that it cameupon me in its fullmight and , when I felt how-near to my Creator Iwas standing, the firsteffect, and the endur-ing one — instant andlasting — of the tre-mendous spectacle,was Peace. Peace of mind, tranquillity, calm IecoUections of the dead,great thoughts of eternal rest and happiness ; nothing of gloom or ter-ror. Niagara was at once stamped upon my heart, an image of beauty;to remain there changeless and indelible, until its pulses cease to beatforever. Oh, how the strife and trouble of daily life receded from my view, and lessened in the distance, durnig the ten memorable days wepassed on that enchantetl grountl ! What voices spoke from out thethundering water; what faces, faded from the earth, looked out uponme from its gleaming depths; what-Heavenly promise glistened inthose angels tears, the drops of many , that showered around, and t w i n-e d themselvesabout the gorgeousarches which the^lianL,nng rainbowsmade! . .. vander to and fro til. all day, and see thecataracts from allpoints of view; tostand upon the edgeof the great Horse-shoe Fall, markingthe hurried watergathering strength asit approached theverge, yet seeming,too, to pause beforeit shot into the gulfbelow ; to gaze fromthe rivers level up atthe torrent as it camestreaming down; toclimb the neighbor-ing heights and watchwater in the rapids hurr)-n the shadow of the solemn it through the trees, and : ing on to take its fearful \ rocks three miles below; watching the river as, stirred by no visible cause, it heaved and eddied and awoke the echoes, being troubled yet, far down beneath the surface, by its giant leap; to have Niagara before ^•^
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