. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. avigable stream ;to men, who Kke Francis Abbot have associated theirnames with the Falls in one way, or like Capt. Webb,with the Rapids in another way; to the fall of TableRock in 1850, showing to this generation the undermin-ing process by which Niagara has cut the gorge ; or tothe numberless accidents which have annually occurred,some by accident, some intentionally. Each of these in one way or another have tendedto make history, and to point
. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. avigable stream ;to men, who Kke Francis Abbot have associated theirnames with the Falls in one way, or like Capt. Webb,with the Rapids in another way; to the fall of TableRock in 1850, showing to this generation the undermin-ing process by which Niagara has cut the gorge ; or tothe numberless accidents which have annually occurred,some by accident, some intentionally. Each of these in one way or another have tendedto make history, and to point out lines of thought 168 HISTORIC NIAGARA. whose deductions must benefit future generations, and toall these which are necessarily blended with Niagarashistory, we can but refer in this way. Such, in outline, and with almost brutal brevity, isthe foundation for that great work to which some mas-ter mind will some day devote its energies, and pro-duce, to its own fame and to the benefit of intetnationalliterature, a work whose pages shall contain events asyet imperfectly recorded and whose subject may bethe words of our title, Historic Nias^ Fac-Simile of a view of Niagara Falls by Father Hennepin. {From the Original Utrecht Edition, i6gf).
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