. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . om mainland brink to brink.* But the * Precisely, it is 5,.3T0 feet, the Canadian Fall measuring about .3,060,the face of Goat Island 1,300, and the American Fall 1,060. The narrowerbranch of this fall, between the two islands, is 150 feet in width ; yet atNiagara it seems so unimportant that no one has ever given it a gorge, about one hundred and seventy feet in height abovethe surface of its stream, is less than a quarter of a mile cliffs rise almost sheer from their slanting bases of detritus,nake
. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . om mainland brink to brink.* But the * Precisely, it is 5,.3T0 feet, the Canadian Fall measuring about .3,060,the face of Goat Island 1,300, and the American Fall 1,060. The narrowerbranch of this fall, between the two islands, is 150 feet in width ; yet atNiagara it seems so unimportant that no one has ever given it a gorge, about one hundred and seventy feet in height abovethe surface of its stream, is less than a quarter of a mile cliffs rise almost sheer from their slanting bases of detritus,naked in some spots, in a few defaced by the hand of man, butstill for the most part clothed with hanging robes of first, just below the falls, they look down upon waters thatno longer rush and foam, but slip and swing with an oilysmoothness, exhausted by their daring leap, still too giddyfrom it to flow quite straight, and showing proofs of it in longtwisting ropes of curdled froth. For nearly two miles theirlethargy lasts. One may swim in this part of the Niagara. Whirlpool Rapids from the
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