. Two days at Niagara Falls. -- . to his store of personal ex-periences. ;-Sir Edwin Arnold, writing of a recent visit, says: Before methe great cataract of America is thundering, smoking, glitteringwith green and white rollers, hurling the waters of a whole con-tinent in splendor and speed over the sharp ledges of the longbrown rock by which Lake Erie the Broad steps proudly downto Ontario the Beautiful. Speaking of the two sections of the Cataract, the Horse-shoe andthe American Fall, the same writer says: Whenever for a time thegaze rests with inexhaustible wonder upon the fierce and tumult
. Two days at Niagara Falls. -- . to his store of personal ex-periences. ;-Sir Edwin Arnold, writing of a recent visit, says: Before methe great cataract of America is thundering, smoking, glitteringwith green and white rollers, hurling the waters of a whole con-tinent in splendor and speed over the sharp ledges of the longbrown rock by which Lake Erie the Broad steps proudly downto Ontario the Beautiful. Speaking of the two sections of the Cataract, the Horse-shoe andthe American Fall, the same writer says: Whenever for a time thegaze rests with inexhaustible wonder upon the fierce and tumultuousAmerican Fall, the mightier and still more marvellous Horse-shoesteals its way again with irresistible fascination. Full in front liesthat wholly indescribable spectacle at this instant. Its solemnvoice—an octave lower than the excited, leaping, almost angrycry of fervid life from the lesser cataract—resounds through thegolden summer morning air like the distant roar from the streets offifty Londons, all in full It is through these the Deity still speaks to man; yet what caninspire more awe of Him, more reverence, and more love, than thecontemplation of thy falling waters, great Niagara ! — Cafit. Mar-ryat in Travels in A iiierica.
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