. New guide and key to Niagara Falls : published for the convenience and guidance of tourists and visitors, the information conveyed in this guide is authentic and taken from official sources and is therefore accurate and reliable . Illuminating and View Point. Goat Island Bridge8 from Lewiston to Lake Ontario, .6 ft.; total fall in River fromLake Erie to Lake Ontario (distance of 37 miles), 326 feet. The Palls have been called the clock of creation, as theirrecession from Lewiston best measures the time elapsed since thefirst record of man upon earth. Prof. Hitchcok, the geologrist,has estima
. New guide and key to Niagara Falls : published for the convenience and guidance of tourists and visitors, the information conveyed in this guide is authentic and taken from official sources and is therefore accurate and reliable . Illuminating and View Point. Goat Island Bridge8 from Lewiston to Lake Ontario, .6 ft.; total fall in River fromLake Erie to Lake Ontario (distance of 37 miles), 326 feet. The Palls have been called the clock of creation, as theirrecession from Lewiston best measures the time elapsed since thefirst record of man upon earth. Prof. Hitchcok, the geologrist,has estimated the period of recession as 49,600 years. GOAT ISLAND BRIDGE The most interesting route on leaving- Prospect Park is alongthe Rapids edge toward Goat Island Bridge. Passing onto Goat Island Bridge you obtain a new view ofthe tumultuous waters of the Upper Rapids as they dash andtumble in endless cascades and billows to disappear over thecreSt into the Gorge below. The present Goat Island Bridge waserected by the State of New York in 1901. The first bridge wasconstructed in 1817 about 500 feet above the present structureand carried away by the ice a year later. Another bridge wasconstructed on the same site in the same year, which 1901 the
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