. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. Thy flood to chronicle the ages notch His centries in the eternal rock. * Deep calleth unto Deep, And what are weThat hear the question of that voice sublime ?Oh ! What are all the notes that ever rungrFrom wars vain trumpet by thy thundering side !Yea, what is all the riot man can makeIn his short life to thy unceasing roar!And yet bold babbler, what art thou to HimWho drowned a world and heaped the waters farAbove its loftiest mountai
. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. Thy flood to chronicle the ages notch His centries in the eternal rock. * Deep calleth unto Deep, And what are weThat hear the question of that voice sublime ?Oh ! What are all the notes that ever rungrFrom wars vain trumpet by thy thundering side !Yea, what is all the riot man can makeIn his short life to thy unceasing roar!And yet bold babbler, what art thou to HimWho drowned a world and heaped the waters farAbove its loftiest mountains ?—a light waveThat breaks and whispers of its Makers might. There are many other expressions of those whofrom all parts of the world have matched the feeblenessof speech against the stress of feeling; but we forbearto quote further. The extracts given above will provesufficient for their purpose if they constitute a pleasureto the receptive mind, susceptible to the influences ofthe scene they visit, and if they prove a gentle warn-ing to the too eager expression of words which sooften hide rather than reveal thought. \ r\ : MIST^OP-Y : OT=. AMOUS all over the world as Niagara istoday, in its scenic, botanic, geologic andhydraulic aspects, it is equally famous,equally interesting, and equally instructive in its var-ious and numerous historic features. And in usingthe words of our title we use them in their broadestand noblest sense, employing the word historic tocover all those multitudinous phases of this regionsexistence and condition at which a true student ofhistory instinctively looks; we use the word Niagara,not in that circumscribed meaning which takes in onlythe Falls and their immediate surroundings, but makeit cover both banks of this famous river from itssource to its mouth. To treat of such a broad sub-ject within the narrow limits of a few pages will permitof only the briefest reference to any point. EARLY MENTIONS OF NIAGARA. Just when white men first saw the
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