. Special report of New York State Survey on the preservation of the scenery of Niagara Falls ; and fourth annual report on the triangulation of State. For the Year 1879. the wood-embowered deep river bed, a portion of the crowning glory of thescene — the falls — a vast clirt of illuminated foam, with a zone tow-ardsits upper edge as of green molten glass. Above the falls the scene isquite diflerent. A wide and peaceful river carrying the surplus watersof an inland sea, till it gTadually flnds itself in the coils of the rapids,and is soon lashed into such a turmoil as we might expect if a doze
. Special report of New York State Survey on the preservation of the scenery of Niagara Falls ; and fourth annual report on the triangulation of State. For the Year 1879. the wood-embowered deep river bed, a portion of the crowning glory of thescene — the falls — a vast clirt of illuminated foam, with a zone tow-ardsits upper edge as of green molten glass. Above the falls the scene isquite diflerent. A wide and peaceful river carrying the surplus watersof an inland sea, till it gTadually flnds itself in the coils of the rapids,and is soon lashed into such a turmoil as we might expect if a dozenunpolluted Shannons or Seines were running a race together. A riverno more, but a sea unreined. By walking about a mile above the fallson the Canadian shore this effect is finely seen, the breadth of the riverhelping to carry out the illusion. As the great waste of waters descendsfrom its dark grey and smooth bed and falls whitening into foam, itseems as if tide after tide were gale-heaped one on another on a sea-fraud. The islands just above the falls enable one to stand in the • AlxJinc Flowers, by Wiiliuni Robiiisou, F. L. S. Louduu : Joliu Murray, IN THE WOODS OF GOAT ISLAND. No. 37.] 29 midst of these rapids, where they rush by lashed into passionate haste;now boiling over some hidden swellings in the rocky bed, or dashingover greater but yet hidden obstructions with such force that the crest ofthe uplifted mass is dashed about as freely as a white chargers mane;now darkly falling into a cavity several yards below the level of thesurrounding water, and, when unobstructed, surging by in countlesseddies to the mist-crested falls below; and so rapidly that the driftwooddashes on swift as swallow on the wing. Undisturbed in their peacefulshadiness, garlanded with wild vine and wild flowers, the islands standin the midst of all this fierce commotion of waters — below, the vastever-mining falls; above, a complication of torrents that seem fitted towear away iron
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