. Summer vacation tours . It is the Michigan Central. Is there an American of intelligence and culture39 who is ignorant of Niagara? A preacher who hasnot seen this most wonderful example of the Cre-ators handiwork? A teacher of youth whose onlyknowledge of the most famous of all geologicalobject lessons is gained from his own text-books?A lecturer, poet, artist, or writer, whose acquaint-ance with his country is so limited as not to includethe one distinctive landscape which is associatedin every foreign land with the name America? Tosuch we say, see Niagara, broaden your mind withcontemplati
. Summer vacation tours . It is the Michigan Central. Is there an American of intelligence and culture39 who is ignorant of Niagara? A preacher who hasnot seen this most wonderful example of the Cre-ators handiwork? A teacher of youth whose onlyknowledge of the most famous of all geologicalobject lessons is gained from his own text-books?A lecturer, poet, artist, or writer, whose acquaint-ance with his country is so limited as not to includethe one distinctive landscape which is associatedin every foreign land with the name America? Tosuch we say, see Niagara, broaden your mind withcontemplation of its grandeur, and enrich your soulwith, absorption of its beauty. To those from theinterior of the continent who have seen Niagaraand studied its mysteries, the name America pre-sents a much vaster conception than it ever hadbefore, and to the broadness of its prairies and theheight of its mountains is added an idea of the coun-trys dignity and power. 40 i Michigan Central Summer Tours Michigan Central Summer Tours. The Whirlpool and the Lower Gorge Niagara can not be described in the limits of atravelers guide book. Great writers and greatartists have essayed the task, and have confessedthat pen and brush are inadequate to the task. IfMrs. Frances TroUope said unpleasant things aboutAmericans, her son, Anthony Trollope, madeamends in his laudation of Niagara. The giftedworld traveler wrote: Of all the sights on this earth of ours whichtourists travel to see, I am inclined to give the palmto the Falls of Niagara. In the catalogue of suchsights, I intend to include all beauties of natureprepared by the Creator for the delight of his crea-tures. I know of no other one thing so beautiful,so glorious, and so powerful. At Niagara there isthat fall of waters alone. But that fall is moregraceful than Giottos Tower, more noble than theApollo. The peaks of the Alps are not so astound-ing in their solitude. The valleys in Jamaica areless green. The finished glaze of life in Paris i
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