. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . The pure beauty of elegance and grace is the grand char-acteristic of the Falls. It is supremely artistic, a harmony, amasterpiece. The lower half of the watery wall is shroudedin the steam of the boiling gulf — a veil never rent or its core this eternal cloud seems fixed and still with excessof motion — still and intensely white. —Henry James, Jr., in Portraits of Places. These distinctive qualities — the great variety of the indige-nous perennials and annuals, the rare beauty of the old woods,35 and the exc
. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . The pure beauty of elegance and grace is the grand char-acteristic of the Falls. It is supremely artistic, a harmony, amasterpiece. The lower half of the watery wall is shroudedin the steam of the boiling gulf — a veil never rent or its core this eternal cloud seems fixed and still with excessof motion — still and intensely white. —Henry James, Jr., in Portraits of Places. These distinctive qualities — the great variety of the indige-nous perennials and annuals, the rare beauty of the old woods,35 and the exceeding loveliness of the rock foliage — I believe tobe the direct effect of the Falls, and as much a part of itsmajesty as the mist-cloud and the rainbow. — Frederick Law 01
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