Describes Niagara Falls in the wintertime. Transcription: pass over, ?twill be done this year. [Edward] Heylyn raps at the gate on the other side, and clamors to be let into a free country, whereupon the gate-keeper, (being a Yankee,) is immensely tickled. Having supped at the little ?ǣSaloon ? we had dined in, to the boarding house, and abed together in a room where slept four or five others, ? windows unopenable by any amount of coercion. 6. Thursday. After another visit to Goat Island & the Terrapin Rock Tower, I passed out at a crevice through the Stairs leading to the Ferry; and by din
Describes Niagara Falls in the wintertime. Transcription: pass over, ?twill be done this year. [Edward] Heylyn raps at the gate on the other side, and clamors to be let into a free country, whereupon the gate-keeper, (being a Yankee,) is immensely tickled. Having supped at the little ?ǣSaloon ? we had dined in, to the boarding house, and abed together in a room where slept four or five others, ? windows unopenable by any amount of coercion. 6. Thursday. After another visit to Goat Island & the Terrapin Rock Tower, I passed out at a crevice through the Stairs leading to the Ferry; and by dint of an icy and precipitous descent got to the nearer foot of the American Fall, where there is truly a magnificent view of it. Heylyn wouldn ?t do this, having sprained his hand in yesterdays exploits. A long walk along the road on the side, some 7 miles or so. And first we visited the Whirlpool, which is about half a mile below the Suspension Bridge. Here the river makes a sudden bend, and having been previously confined to narrow channels, in turning upon itself, rages, rushes and foams furiously. We descended the cliff here, by a long, winding, devious track, sometimes ladders, sometimes rocky ledge, sometimes rough steps, stone and planking. It was long, wearisome and snow covered, but hardly dangerous. Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 132, January 5-6, 1853 . 5 January 1853. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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