. New guide and key to Niagara Falls : published for the convenience and guidance of tourists and visitors, the information conveyed in this guide is authentic and taken from official sources and is therefore accurate and reliable . ls is ah\aj-s an interesting sub-ject. Scientists who have givenmuch stiidy to this feature informus that ten thousand years maycover the period of the excavationof the prestnt gorge and while be-fore the long ages of the glacialice drift there was probably a pre-glacial Niagara. Careful measure-ments, covering a period of sixtyyears, show a retrosession of theFall
. New guide and key to Niagara Falls : published for the convenience and guidance of tourists and visitors, the information conveyed in this guide is authentic and taken from official sources and is therefore accurate and reliable . ls is ah\aj-s an interesting sub-ject. Scientists who have givenmuch stiidy to this feature informus that ten thousand years maycover the period of the excavationof the prestnt gorge and while be-fore the long ages of the glacialice drift there was probably a pre-glacial Niagara. Careful measure-ments, covering a period of sixtyyears, show a retrosession of theFalls of about 500 feet in a century,although some authorities claim this allowance is too great. Atthis rate of recession, it is estimated the Falls will move abouta mile southw^ard in the next 1000 years. The name Niagara is of Indian origin, the commonly ac-cepted interpretation being The Thunderer of the name comes direct to us from the Iroquqis Indians who,tradition informs us, acquired it from the Neuters, w^hom theyannihilated as a tribe, the survivors being absorbed by the Iro-quois and the Senecas. About fifty variations of the name Ni-agara are known, but the present spelling has been used forover 200 Hennepin View SIGHT-SEEING Visitors to Niagara Falls will be able to make the best econ-omic use of time by adhering to the following routes in sight-seeing about the Falls. NEW YORK STATE RESERVATION That Niagara should be made free for the enjoyment of man-kind seeoiis first to have occurred to two Scotch ddvines whopa;^ this region a visit in 1834 and who said Niagara does notbelong to America or Canada and such spots should be deemedthe property of civilized mankind. Other winters expressedsimilar sentiment, which were rea-ly the beginning of the longagitation that finally resulted in Free Niagara. The StateReservation at Niagara was opened to the publ/c July 15. establishment was the result of the movemeoit for the pre-servation of the scener
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