. Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore . red edi-fices would any where attract attention. St. Andrews Presby-terian Church is the finest Norman piece of architecture in is the political, commercial, legal, religious, literary andeducational center o
. Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore . red edi-fices would any where attract attention. St. Andrews Presby-terian Church is the finest Norman piece of architecture in is the political, commercial, legal, religious, literary andeducational center of Ontario. Large numbers of Americans visitthis city annually, and the best hotel accommodation can be securedat most reasonable rates. In the summer season the* bay is alivewith ferry boats and small craft of all kinds, plying between thecity and Hanlans Island, and there are daily pleasant excursionsby water in all directions. NIAGARA FALLS. 49 WHE Falls of Niagara, the grandest specimen of Natureshandiwork in the whole world, are equally magnificent atall seasons and under all circumstances; whether viewed bymoonlight or sunlight, or the dazzling glare of the electric light,Winter or summer, their wonderful proportions are always whirling floods, the unvarying thunderous roar, the vastsheets of spray and mist that are caught in their liquid depths by. sunbeams and formed into radiant rainbows—all seem as if homagewere paid by the skies to creations greatest contract—a temple notmade by hands. The Niagara Falls received their name from the Indians, inwhose language the word Niagara means the thunder of Niagara River receives the waters of all the upper lakes—theErie, St. Clair, Huron, Michigan, Superior and a number of smallerones, and neither the snows of winter nor the evaporation of sum-mer, neither rains nor drought, materially affect it. Its waters flowon full and clear, perpetually the same, with the exception thatabout once every seven years
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