. Pauls' dictionary of Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Tonawanda and vicinity a descriptive index and guide to the various institutions, public buildings, societies, amusements, resorts, etc., in and about the city of Buffalo . hippewa, a little distance above the Falls, as they had oftendone before. One of them was intoxicated and interfered with the rowing,so that they were drawn into the Canadian rapids and went over the Horse-shoe Fall. In the same month a young Canadian in crossing from NavyIsland to Chippewa had his boat drawn into the current and went over theFalls. Impressions of Visitors. Ths
. Pauls' dictionary of Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Tonawanda and vicinity a descriptive index and guide to the various institutions, public buildings, societies, amusements, resorts, etc., in and about the city of Buffalo . hippewa, a little distance above the Falls, as they had oftendone before. One of them was intoxicated and interfered with the rowing,so that they were drawn into the Canadian rapids and went over the Horse-shoe Fall. In the same month a young Canadian in crossing from NavyIsland to Chippewa had his boat drawn into the current and went over theFalls. Impressions of Visitors. Ths Horseshoe Fall as a single object is unquestionable the sublimestthing in nature.—A^. P. Willis. To shallow minds Niagara is disappointing because they cannot even be-gin to comprehend its significance. .But the mind which knows somethingof the language in which Niagara speaks finds always impressive teaching inthe thought that this work represents not a millionth part of the energy re-siding in terrestrial gravity—the force which our mother earth uses as if butin play. Here its grim might is seen, and all the more impressively sincewe know that while it is but the merest nothing of the earths force, yet we. The Horseshoe Fall, from below on the Canadian Side. 238 Niagara as It Is. are overwhelmed by its vehemence and powerless in its presence. Whenthe real energies of Niagara have been recognized and the relation betweenthose energies and the might of terrestrial gravity is understood, the mindmust be awed by the stupendous significance of Niagara.—Richard }^, 171 Sci€}ice,^ 1886. It was now about three oclock in the afternoon. I stood on the browof Table Rock and gazed once more on the great dreary, colorless expanseof water, foam and spray. And this was Niagara, and there was nothingmore ? Nothing ? With a burst like the sound of a trumpet, the sodden suncame out, and—God bless him !—there he was ; and there, too, in the midstof the foaming waters, was t
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