. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. river has a great volumethe down rush of water is apt to break up the lower-lying harder layers so that one great fall is reader will do well to see the beautiful system ofstep cascades known as Trenton Falls, where WestCanada Creek descends from the highland about itssource through a beautiful gorge of its own carving inmany successive leaps. The foregoing brief story concerning the naturalhistory of water-falls has led us to the p
. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. river has a great volumethe down rush of water is apt to break up the lower-lying harder layers so that one great fall is reader will do well to see the beautiful system ofstep cascades known as Trenton Falls, where WestCanada Creek descends from the highland about itssource through a beautiful gorge of its own carving inmany successive leaps. The foregoing brief story concerning the naturalhistory of water-falls has led us to the point where wemay begin our inquiries concerning the genesis ofNiagara. This fall belongs to the last-mentioned groupof cascades, that in which the course of the river isdetermined in a great measure by the diverse resist-ance which horizontically-bedded rocks opposed to thewearing action of the water. In order, however, to facethe many (interesting questions which this river and fallpresent to the naturalist, we must ask the reader at theoutset to obtain a clear idea as to the conditions of thevalley of the stream from the point where it leaves. THE GEOLOGY OF NIAGARA FALLS. y I Lake Erie to that where it enters Lake Ontario. Theideal way to obtain this impression would be to viewthe country from the sumit of a tower having a heightof five hundred feet or more, standing at a point nearthe present line of the falls. It is indeed most desirablefrom the point of view of the teacher, as well as otherswho love wide views, that such a coin of vantage should be constructed. In passing, we may remarkthat such an outlook would enable the observer tocommand the whole field of nearly level country fromlake to lake. The student would thus be able to per-ceive directly what he can only otherwise infer from themaps and birds eye views. Using, however, theselast named means of illustration, we readily observethe following facts concerning the course of NiagaraRiver. We follow the prevailing f
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