. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. ^.^^-^^^S ,„^^ ^. The Horse Shoe Falls from Cariada-Looking towards the Three Sisters. THE FLORA AND FAUNA OF NIAGARA FALLS. 175 years, kept it mainly in the condition in which Natureleft it. To the naturalist, the hand of cultivation isoften the hand of devastation. It has happily beenspared, to a large extent, from the ravage of the axeand plough, and from the still more complete spoliationwhich comes from the pasturage of horses and
. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. ^.^^-^^^S ,„^^ ^. The Horse Shoe Falls from Cariada-Looking towards the Three Sisters. THE FLORA AND FAUNA OF NIAGARA FALLS. 175 years, kept it mainly in the condition in which Natureleft it. To the naturalist, the hand of cultivation isoften the hand of devastation. It has happily beenspared, to a large extent, from the ravage of the axeand plough, and from the still more complete spoliationwhich comes from the pasturage of horses and would be very difficult to find within another ter-ritory, so restricted in its limits, so great a diversityof trees and shrubs—still more difficult to find, in sosmall an area, such examples of arboreal symmetryand perfection, as the Island has to exhibit. From the geological history of the Island, as hasthus been told, it would be inferred that it had re-ceived its Flora from the mainland. This, no doubt,is true. In fact the botanist is unable to point out asingle instance of tree, or shrub, or herb, now growingupon the Island, not also to be found upon the
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