. Health and pleasure on America's greatest . eat sublimity. To be properlyappreciated they must be visited, and when once viewed the recollection of thevisit will linger long in memory. There is some uncertainty about the sex of Niagara. Is it Cleopatra, a queenof the sea, with the serpentine tresses ? The full curves are feminine is it a sleeping Hercules, with tangled beard and knotted muscles ? Perhapsboth, for the Falls are double and essentially different, combining two greatdivisions of water scenery: the excitable, impulsive, fickle, endless fanciesof the rapids
. Health and pleasure on America's greatest . eat sublimity. To be properlyappreciated they must be visited, and when once viewed the recollection of thevisit will linger long in memory. There is some uncertainty about the sex of Niagara. Is it Cleopatra, a queenof the sea, with the serpentine tresses ? The full curves are feminine is it a sleeping Hercules, with tangled beard and knotted muscles ? Perhapsboth, for the Falls are double and essentially different, combining two greatdivisions of water scenery: the excitable, impulsive, fickle, endless fanciesof the rapids, and the slow, wheel-like, unceasing, unfeeling, unvarying curvesof the Falls themselves. Father Hennepin, its first white visitor, dared notname the spectacle. He could not tell what title to give it, so he called it still 102 HEALTH AND PLEASURE RESORTS ON THE by its Indian name. The Senecas hereabouts (for our encylopaedias ignore thematter) say that it means the Neck of the Lakes. One old Indian brave at least,to whom he applied, gave that Terrapin Rock and Horse-Shoe Falls. Niagara, whatever it means, is in winter or summer alike a mystery. Itcannot be photographed or pictured or understood. It preaches over our heads. NEW YORK CENTRAL & HUDSON RIVER R. R. 103 But is it good to go often and sit down under its vast rock pulpit, and even tofall asleep when the wind blows amid its dull, solemn roar, which is so unlikethat of the sea — as children used to sink to rest under the old Puritan divines,not grasping their meaning, or even remembering their words, but carryingaway ever an ineffaceable and holy impression of power divine. No trip to Niagara Falls is now complete without a ride over the LewistonBranch of the New York Central, which extends from Niagara Falls to Lewis-ton, a distance of seven miles, along shelving rock overlooking the magnificentscenery of the Niagara Gorge, and in full view of Queenston Heights, theWhirlpool Rapids, and Brocks Monument. Riv
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