. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . s well as of a thousandtine details. And the best season for Niagara? Each has its own sometimes gives the place an arctic picturesqueness, adazzling semi-immobility, utterly unlike its affluent, multi-colored summer aspect; but one could hardly wish to see itonly in winter, or in winter first of all. It is most gorgeouslymulticolored, of course, when its ravine and its islands com-memorate its long-dead Indians by donning the war-paint ofautumn. And it is most seductively fair in early , at the
. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . s well as of a thousandtine details. And the best season for Niagara? Each has its own sometimes gives the place an arctic picturesqueness, adazzling semi-immobility, utterly unlike its affluent, multi-colored summer aspect; but one could hardly wish to see itonly in winter, or in winter first of all. It is most gorgeouslymulticolored, of course, when its ravine and its islands com-memorate its long-dead Indians by donning the war-paint ofautumn. And it is most seductively fair in early , at the beginning of May, when the shrubs are leafingand the trees are growing hazy, its islands are the isles ofparadise. This is the time of the first wild flowers. Spreadbeneath the forest that still admits the sun-floods through itscanopies, massed in the more open glades, and wreathed alongthe edges of pathways and shores, they fill Goat Island full,whitely bank and carpet it—snowy trilliums in myriads, blood-roots, dicentras, smilacinas, and spring-beauties, varied by11. Beneath the Forest of the Islands. rose-tinted spring-cresses and yellow uvularias, and underlaidby drifts of violets. Hardly anywhere else over so large anarea can these children of May grow in such profusion, foreven when the sun shines hottest upon them the air is alwaysdelicately dampened by the spraying floods. Here nature sofaithfully fosters them that they need not be jealously guardedby man. Whoever will may gather them by the armful. It is good to see Niagara at this time (May). But it isstill better to see it when its trees and shrubs and vines arein fullest leaf and many of them in blossom. Their value isgreatest as a setting for the endless series of large and small,near and distant water pictures; and then the temperatureinvites to lingering. The very best time of all is in II. Above the falls the broad river runs between shores so flatthat one wonders why it never mistakes its course ; an
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