. The tourist's guide through the Empire state. Embracing all cities, towns and watering places, by Hudson river and New York central route . at the depth of that Horse-Shoe is immeasurable. It has been cut with no stinting hand. A monstrous cantle hasbeen worn out back of the centre of the rock, so that the fury of thewaters converges, and the spectator, as he gazes into the hollow,with wishful eyes, fancies that he can hardly trace out the centreof the abyss. Flow on forever, in thy glorious robeOf terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on,Unfathomed and resistless. God hath setHis rainbow on thy f
. The tourist's guide through the Empire state. Embracing all cities, towns and watering places, by Hudson river and New York central route . at the depth of that Horse-Shoe is immeasurable. It has been cut with no stinting hand. A monstrous cantle hasbeen worn out back of the centre of the rock, so that the fury of thewaters converges, and the spectator, as he gazes into the hollow,with wishful eyes, fancies that he can hardly trace out the centreof the abyss. Flow on forever, in thy glorious robeOf terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on,Unfathomed and resistless. God hath setHis rainbow on thy forehead, and the cloudMantled around thy feet. Thou dost speakAlone of God, who poured thee as a dropFrom his right hand. From Prospect Tower, the view of the Falls is not as entire andcomplete, as from the Canadian shore, but it is perhaps morebeautiful. The eye in roving over the landscape at this point, cannot failto perceive on the Canadian side, up above the fall, what Trollope, a recent visitor, calls, a horrid obelisk, putthere with some camera obscura intention for which the projectordeserves to be put into NIAGARA THE TOURISTS GUIDE. 193 At such a place as Niagara, tasteless buildings, run up in wrongplaces, with a view of money making, are perhaps necessary may be that they are not evils at all; that they give more pleas-ure than pain, seeing that they tend to the enjoyment of the multi-tude. But there are edifices of this description which cry aloud tothe gods, by the force of their own ugliness and malposition. Asto such, it may be said that there should somewhere exist a powercapable of crushing them in their birth. This obelisk or picture-building at Niagara, is one of such ! Very creditable photographs of the Falls, and of visitors, aretaken there, however, and perhaps the building does not generallyincur the maledictions which Mr. Trollope expends-upon it. On Goat Island, is the Indian Emporium, an amusing place tovisit, but it may
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