. Special report of New York State Survey on the preservation of the scenery of Niagara Falls ; and fourth annual report on the triangulation of State. For the Year 1879. he State to be immoderate. VIII. Reviewino: the scheme as a whole, the following comments are sub-mitted to the Legislature : Judged from the lowest point of view, States possess in the interestof their physical features sources of great public and private more striking proofs might l)e found abroad, we need not gobeyond the limits of our own State for sufficient illustrations of thisfact. There can be few intel
. Special report of New York State Survey on the preservation of the scenery of Niagara Falls ; and fourth annual report on the triangulation of State. For the Year 1879. he State to be immoderate. VIII. Reviewino: the scheme as a whole, the following comments are sub-mitted to the Legislature : Judged from the lowest point of view, States possess in the interestof their physical features sources of great public and private more striking proofs might l)e found abroad, we need not gobeyond the limits of our own State for sufficient illustrations of thisfact. There can be few intelligent citizens of New York who are notaware from peisonal observation that a large and rapidly augment-ing revenue is tiowing into all its channels of business and into thepublic treasury, because of the attractions which the people of otherStates and countries find in the scenery of the Hudson, the Mohawk,the Susquehanna, the Delaware and the Genesee ; of Lake Cham[)lain,Lake George and numerous smaller bodies of water ; the ThousandTalands of the St. Lawrence; the mountain and forest wilds of theAdirondacks, and the picturesque glens and cascades of the central. No. 87.] 15 part of the State. Niagara Falls is not simply the crowning glory ofthe gi eat resonrces of the State of this class, but the highest distinctionof the nation and of the continent. No other like gift of nature equallyholds the interest of the world at hugc or operates equally as an in-ducement to the crossing of the ocean. Its eminence is shown by theremarkable circumstance that the word Niagara has become incor-porated into many languages as better than any other expressing ideasof which the facts of Niagara are the highest kuowu exemplitication. The private land ownership and individual enterprise, Avhich else-where work favorably to the interests of the State by aiding the pur-pose of travelers, at Niagara stand in its way. The evil is not onethat can cure itself It is sure, if it continues, to increase
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