. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . ving gorge it is beaten once more intorapids, much deeper and fiercer than those above the falls, andgaining somberness from the high walls that enframe the end of another mile the channel turns at right anglesagain. But before its waters can turn with it, they dash them-selves against the Canadian cliff, and swirl back and aroundin a great elbow-like basin, blindly seeking for the exit. This15 is the famous Whirlpool, and it shows the Niagara in slillanother mood. Except around its edges, there is no riotingan
. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . ving gorge it is beaten once more intorapids, much deeper and fiercer than those above the falls, andgaining somberness from the high walls that enframe the end of another mile the channel turns at right anglesagain. But before its waters can turn with it, they dash them-selves against the Canadian cliff, and swirl back and aroundin a great elbow-like basin, blindly seeking for the exit. This15 is the famous Whirlpool, and it shows the Niagara in slillanother mood. Except around its edges, there is no riotingand splashing as in the rapids, yet there is no exhaustion asnear the foot of the falls; instead, a deep, saturnine wrath,more terrible in its massive, leaden gyrations than any loudpassion could be. And when the waters which thus dumblywrithe with the pain of their arrested course find the narrowoutlet at last, their great surge outward and onward is sullenlike their circlings within the pool. Incredibly swift andstrong, running at a rate of some forty miles an hour, they. Outlet of the Whirlpool. pile themselves up in the center of the channel, but are notboisterous with breakers or combs and jets of spray. Thesesoon come again as the channel enlarges a little and theimmense pressure is relaxed ; and then, three miles below theWhirlpool, the throttling of the river ends. Here, near Lewis-ton, the gorge itself ends with the limits of the more elevatedplain through which the river is gradually cutting its backwardway. The gorge ends, and to right and left, eastward andwestward, the edge of the high plain stretches off as a boldescarpment, showing what used to be the shore-line of Ontario,when, a larger lake than it is to-day, it covered the lower flat16 land. And across this flat land for seven miles, until thepresent lake shore is reached, the Niagara, half a mile inwidth, flows and gently—beautiful still, but nowwith a beauty like that of many other rivers. III. Put
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