. Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast. -milecreek falls, eighty feet descent. St. Catharines, with a population of about 10,500, is the center ofthe Niagara fruit belt, and an important shipping point. It has mineralwells, pleasant walks and drives, picturesque scenery, and other attrac-tions for summer tourists, together with electric railway c
. Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast. -milecreek falls, eighty feet descent. St. Catharines, with a population of about 10,500, is the center ofthe Niagara fruit belt, and an important shipping point. It has mineralwells, pleasant walks and drives, picturesque scenery, and other attrac-tions for summer tourists, together with electric railway connectionswith Thorold, Merritton and Port Dalhousie. Extensive manufactur-ing interests contribute to the welfare of the city, including cutleryworks, saw factories, paper mills, Irair-cloth factories, etc. Merritton, two miles further east, is a place of some commercialii|iortance, having a population of about 1,800. It is the junction ofiiic Welland Branch of the Grand Trunk System, extending from PortColborne on Lake Erie to Port Dalhousie on Lake Ontario. Its princi-pial manufacturing interests are paper and pulp, cotton, carriage goods,henl stuff, etc. It is ninr iiiilrx f,<,ni Xi;i-:u;i F;i,K,. NIAGARA FALLS. X F ALL the pleasure re-ij sorts on the Americany continent probaljlynone receive annually somany visitors as the fa-, mous cataract where thewaters of Lake Eriecome tumbling inone grand plunge,over a precipice onehundred and sixty-four feet in height, inI h e i r mad rushtoward the ocean, byway of Lake Ontarioand the St. LawrenceKiver. While thereare waterfalls of greatei hciglit, the immense volume of water, and thesheer descent of the unbroken plunge, give to Niagara a sublimitywhich height alone cannot impart. The tumultuous rapids above thefalls, and the deep gorge below, add not a little to the grandeur of thescene, whUe the historical traditions associated with the entire neigh-borhood render a visit to Niagara an event long to be remembered. To describe N
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