. New guide and key to Niagara Falls : published for the convenience and guidance of tourists and visitors, the information conveyed in this guide is authentic and taken from official sources and is therefore accurate and reliable . Bridge to the Third Sister Island Continuing thejjoumey airoundGoat Island, nexton© comes to theThree SisterIslands which arevery interestingand should not bemissed. Theseislands were con-nected with GoatIsland by Jhand-some suspensionbrfidges in 1868,but have sincebeen replaced bymore modern andpicturesquestructures ofstone and steel. From theseislands may beobtai
. New guide and key to Niagara Falls : published for the convenience and guidance of tourists and visitors, the information conveyed in this guide is authentic and taken from official sources and is therefore accurate and reliable . Bridge to the Third Sister Island Continuing thejjoumey airoundGoat Island, nexton© comes to theThree SisterIslands which arevery interestingand should not bemissed. Theseislands were con-nected with GoatIsland by Jhand-some suspensionbrfidges in 1868,but have sincebeen replaced bymore modern andpicturesquestructures ofstone and steel. From theseislands may beobtaiined thegrandest views of the upper Niagara Rapidson account of their loca-tion. The islet at the footof the Third Sister Islandis called Little BrotherIsland. It has never beenbridged, but in seasons oflow water, or during icejams in the winter, it maybe reached by the Bridge to the Sister Islands THE HERMITS CASCADE The Hermits Cascade is best seen from the First SisterIsland Bridge. It is so called because, Francis Abbott, the her-mit of Niagara made this spot his rendezvous. He lived this IS solitary life for a period of two years. He wrote considerably,mostly in Latin, but destroyed tiis manuscripts almost immedi-ately after they were written. He lost his afe while bathingnear Prospect Park in 1831 and his body was recovered andburied in Oakwood Cemetery in Niagara Falls near the body ofCaptain Webb. HEAD OF GOAT ISLAND While the visitor may return to Goat Island Bridg^e by fol-lowing the path directly east from the Three Sister Islands,there are many pleasures to be experienced by contanuing tothe head of the Island. The Spring isthe next point ofinterest GoatIsland offers tothe visitor. Formany years thisfountain of cool,clear water bub-bled up from be-tween the oasis for thethirsty sight-seeT. felyMpl^(,^j^M^^^^^MM_^^^ ..^^E T^Hicin
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