. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . Entrance to Cave of the Winds. We must look down upon Niagara while we are learning mostof its lessons in regard to the beauties of flowing and fallingwater. And when, at the last, making our way to its base, we standthere precariously on narrow ledges,^ of rock ; when, almostdefying natures prohibitions, we pass behind the thundering18 veil of liquid glass and foam in the Cave of the Winds ; when,after sharing all their phases of feeling before they fell and asthey were falling, we meet its waters again just after the
. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . Entrance to Cave of the Winds. We must look down upon Niagara while we are learning mostof its lessons in regard to the beauties of flowing and fallingwater. And when, at the last, making our way to its base, we standthere precariously on narrow ledges,^ of rock ; when, almostdefying natures prohibitions, we pass behind the thundering18 veil of liquid glass and foam in the Cave of the Winds ; when,after sharing all their phases of feeling before they fell and asthey were falling, we meet its waters again just after they havefallen, our little ship challenging them to touch us in so fear-less a fashion that again we become their comrades ; when weswing off from the edge of their white caldrons, exhausted. *g^- American Falls from Goat Island. with emotion like the current that bears us back—then, be-cause we have already learned so many other lessons, we areable to appreciate the most tremendous of them all. Then wehave really seen Niagara, because we have felt it; and we havefelt it because we have felt with it. Nature made no mistakein designing this cataract. With waters so mighty and sa19
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