A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . , on my first arrival, I left the Falls after a visit of two days, with animpression of the scene which every thing I had previously read, had failedto create. At the time of my visit, the wind drove the floating ice out ofLake Erie, with the drift-wood of its t
A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . , on my first arrival, I left the Falls after a visit of two days, with animpression of the scene which every thing I had previously read, had failedto create. At the time of my visit, the wind drove the floating ice out ofLake Erie, with the drift-wood of its tributary rivers, and these were con-stantly precipitated over the Falls, but we were not able to discover anyvestiges of them in the eddies below. Immediately in front of the sheet offalling water on the American side, there was also an enormous hank ofsnow, of nearly an hundred feet in height, which the power of the sun hadnot yet been fierce enough to dissolve, and which, by giving an Icelandiccharacter to the landscape, produced a fine effect. It appeared to me fowe its accumulation to the falling particles of frozen spray. What has been said by Goldsmith, and repeated by others, respectithe destructive influence of the rapids* above to ducks and other wafowl, is only an effect of the imagination. So far from being the case,. Bridge and Rapids above the Falls. wild duck is often seen to swim down the rapid to the brink of the Falls,and then fly out, and repeat the descent, seeming to take a delight in theexercise. Neither are small land-birds affected on flying over the Falls, inthe manner that has been stated. I observed the blue-bird and the wren, The grandeur of these rapids is worthy of the cataract in which they the greater branch, the river comes foaming down with prodigious impetuosity, andpresents a surface of agitated billows, dashing wildly through the rocks and scene of commotion continues till within about thirty yards of the Fall. There
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