. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. Fac-Simile of a view of Niagara Falls by Father Hennepin. {From the Original Utrecht Edition, i6gf).. THE traveler, who seeks for exhibitions of thegrander forces of nature, will find his wishesabundantly gratified at Niagara. The fall of the watersof one of the greatest rivers of the world over a preci-pice of more than one hundred and fifty feet in height,and the constantly growing record of their power tochannel through the enduring rock, wil
. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. Fac-Simile of a view of Niagara Falls by Father Hennepin. {From the Original Utrecht Edition, i6gf).. THE traveler, who seeks for exhibitions of thegrander forces of nature, will find his wishesabundantly gratified at Niagara. The fall of the watersof one of the greatest rivers of the world over a preci-pice of more than one hundred and fifty feet in height,and the constantly growing record of their power tochannel through the enduring rock, will prove tohim an absorbing, yet perplexing, subject for the tourist, who takes enjoyment in the shadowsof a forest, almost unchanged from its natural condition,in the stateliness and symmetry of individual trees,planted by the hand of Nature herself, in the beautyand fragrance of many species of flowers, growingwithout cultivation and in countless numbers, in theever-varying forms and hues of foliage, and in thecontinually shifting panorama of the animated creationso near the scenes of human activity and occupationand yet so fi-ee from their usual effects, will findupon the borders of the river, within its chasm and onthe islands, whi
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