. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . The Great Power House. Even the ledges to which we descend from Goat Island donot really make the Horseshoe accessible. They cross n^part of the main Canadian stream, but merely a wide boi^crof it where its current is shallow. Beyond, its bold swec^prevents us from looking directly across its curtain, and for-bids us to see deep into the great recess that varies its curvemidway. The brow of this central arc glows with the richestof all Niagaras varied colors. Here the falling sheet is ex-ceptionally deep. Therefore, as
. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . The Great Power House. Even the ledges to which we descend from Goat Island donot really make the Horseshoe accessible. They cross n^part of the main Canadian stream, but merely a wide boi^crof it where its current is shallow. Beyond, its bold swec^prevents us from looking directly across its curtain, and for-bids us to see deep into the great recess that varies its curvemidway. The brow of this central arc glows with the richestof all Niagaras varied colors. Here the falling sheet is ex-ceptionally deep. Therefore, as it curves, it shows a stretchof palpitant, vivid green which is repeated at no other point,and it preserves its smoothness far below the verge whereshallower currents almost immediately break. No one couldwish that this great royal jewel, this immense and livingemerald, might be approached and analyzed. It is rightly set22. Tlie Horse-shoe from Goat Island. in the way that the great Artifex has chosen — ardent, im-mutable, and forever aloof, as on the crest of the walls ofheaven. Cross now to the Canadian shore. The spot where TableRock broke off (about fifty years ago) puts us more nearly infront of the Horseshoe. Here, unless the vapors blow toothickly around us, we get the most astounding impression thatNiagara gives, excepting those that will come at the bottom ofthe gorge; and even more than any of these it satisfies thesense of beauty. Here we can almost see into the centralarcanum of the irregular curve. We could see into it, and weimagine that we could see through it into something unimagin-able beyond it, if only the clouds that it generates would ceasetheir billowing. But, blazing white and iris-spanned if thesun shines, pearly white when the sky is gray, they never docease, rolling upward and outward, lower or higher, rhythmical,mutable, but immortal. No rocky fangs show at the foot ofthis g
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