. Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore . sunbeams and formed into radiant rainbows—all seem as if homagewere paid by the skies to creations greatest contract—a temple notmade by hands. The Niagara Falls received their name from the Indians, inwhose language the wor
. Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore . sunbeams and formed into radiant rainbows—all seem as if homagewere paid by the skies to creations greatest contract—a temple notmade by hands. The Niagara Falls received their name from the Indians, inwhose language the word Niagara means the thunder of Niagara River receives the waters of all the upper lakes—theErie, St. Clair, Huron, Michigan, Superior and a number of smallerones, and neither the snows of winter nor the evaporation of sum-mer, neither rains nor drought, materially affect it. Its waters flowon full and clear, perpetually the same, with the exception thatabout once every seven years they have a gradual rise and fall,which is attributed to some undiscovered disturbance that effectsLake Erie. 5° SUMMER NIAGARA FALLS. 5i The great maelstrom, called the Whirlpool, some distance belowthe Falls, excites much interest. Its depths are unknown; a 1,000-foot cord was found too short to reach its bottom. There are threedistinct cataracts; the Horseshoe Fall, so called from its crescentshape, is by far the largest, being 2,000 feet wide and 154 feet high;the American Fall is 660 feet wide, and the Central Falls, 243 feet,each having a fall of 163 feet. The two latter are separated fromeach other and the former by Goat Island. The aggregate width
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