. 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. ters ofthe rapids constitute the sky line. No indication of land is visible—■nothing to express the fact that we are looking at a river. The crests ofthe breakers, the leaping and the rushing of the waters, are still seenagainst the clouds, as they are seen in the ocean, when the ship fromwhich we look is in the trough of the sea. It is impossible to resist theeffect on the imagiruition. It is as if the fountains of the great
. 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. ters ofthe rapids constitute the sky line. No indication of land is visible—■nothing to express the fact that we are looking at a river. The crests ofthe breakers, the leaping and the rushing of the waters, are still seenagainst the clouds, as they are seen in the ocean, when the ship fromwhich we look is in the trough of the sea. It is impossible to resist theeffect on the imagiruition. It is as if the fountains of the great deepwere being broken up, and that a new deluge were coming on the impression is rather increased than diminished, by the perspectiveof the low wooded banks on either shore, running down to a vanishingpoint and seeming to be lost in the advancing waters. An apparentlyshoreless sea tumbling toward one is a very grand and a very awfulsight. Forgetting, then, what one knows, and giving oneself to what oneonly sees, I do not know- that there is anything in nature more majesticthan the view of Vie rapids above the falls of Niagara. FREDERICK LAW Z< Q Q c: ■< O tJ ^^ 2 MEMORI^^^L ADDRESSED TO The Governor of New York, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA. To ALONZO B. CORNELL, Governor of the State of New York : The undersigned, citizens of several states and countries, addressyou by reason of the suggestion lately made by Lord Dufferix, thatthe State of New York and the Dominion of Canada should secureand hold, for the worlds good, the lands adjacent to the Falls ofNiagara. The Falls of Niagara are peculiarly exposed to disastrous heights of snow, the precipitous crags of great mountains, how-ever they may be disfigured by man, can rarely be applied to uses■which would destroy their sublimity. But should the islands anddeclivities of the Niagara River be stripped of their natural woods,and occupied for manufacturing and business purposes ; sho
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