What to see in America . each other allalong the route tocarry the news when the water of Lake Erie was let intothe channel that had been dug. At ten oclock, October26th, the first cannon boomed at the west end, and at twenty-one minutes past eleven the last of the series of dischargesconveyed the tidings to New York. In recent years thecanal has been improved at vast expense, and it is nowseventy-five feet wide at the bottom, has locks three hun-dred feet long, and allows the passage of barges with acapacity of one thousand tons. Lake Erie is connected with Lake Ontario by the NiagaraRiver, w
What to see in America . each other allalong the route tocarry the news when the water of Lake Erie was let intothe channel that had been dug. At ten oclock, October26th, the first cannon boomed at the west end, and at twenty-one minutes past eleven the last of the series of dischargesconveyed the tidings to New York. In recent years thecanal has been improved at vast expense, and it is nowseventy-five feet wide at the bottom, has locks three hun-dred feet long, and allows the passage of barges with acapacity of one thousand tons. Lake Erie is connected with Lake Ontario by the NiagaraRiver, which descends three hundred and thirty-three feet inits thirty-six miles. About midway are the great falls. On the brink of the falls thechannel is divided byGoat Island, eight acresin extent, to the right ofwhich is the AmericanFall, 1000 feet wide and167 feet high, and to theleft the Canadian orHorseshoe Fall, 158 feetr^ r^ r- r^ t high with a contour of Old Quaker Church, Flushing, Long ^ Island 2550 feet. Fully seven. 102 What to See in America tenths of the water passes over the latter fall. The gorgebelow is at first comparatively wide, but a few miles fartherdown, at the Whirlpool Rapids, the huge volume of wateris compressed into a space of less than three hundred feetfrom shore to shore. The falls are receding at the averagerate of four feet a year. The first white man to see the fallsw^as the French mariner, Cartier, in 1535. Father Hennepin,who journeyed thither in 1678, said they were a great andprodigious cadence of water, to which the universe does notoffer a parallel. Above the falls are seven miles of rapidsthat attain an amazing velocity as they approach the little steamer, the Maid of the Mist, makes frequenttrips to give visitors a chance to view the falls from closebelow. Perhaps the most exciting experience possible tothe tourist is a visit to the Cave of the Winds. The cave isbehind the fall of the narrow stream that separates Goat andLuna islands,
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