. Cutler's guide to Niagara Falls, and adjacent points of interest. --. s to the Wliirlpool is oneof the most turbulent and treacherous waterways in the worldand but two floating craft ever dared to attempt the journeydown the incline. The feat was successfully accomplishedby the old steamer Maid of the Mist several years ago,and a life boat built by Mr. C. A. Perry, of SuspensionBridge, who made the trip successfully. Two human beingshave attempted to stem this awful tide, and one, a localadventurer escaped alive, although insensible from the buf-feting of the waves and only prevented from si
. Cutler's guide to Niagara Falls, and adjacent points of interest. --. s to the Wliirlpool is oneof the most turbulent and treacherous waterways in the worldand but two floating craft ever dared to attempt the journeydown the incline. The feat was successfully accomplishedby the old steamer Maid of the Mist several years ago,and a life boat built by Mr. C. A. Perry, of SuspensionBridge, who made the trip successfully. Two human beingshave attempted to stem this awful tide, and one, a localadventurer escaped alive, although insensible from the buf-feting of the waves and only prevented from sinking by aliberal quantity of cork life belts. The other. CaptainMatthew Webb, the once famous English swimmer, at-tempted the trip on the afternoon of July 24, 1883, andmet death in the waves, it being generally believed that lifewas crushed out of tlie luckless fellow in the monster wavesthat rise to an estimated height of thirty feet, at briefintervals, just opposite the Buttery elevators on the Ameri-can side and the incline railway on the Canadian side. The (34). Whirlpool Rapids. water of the Rapids is said to be very deep and travels atthe rate of tliirty miles an hour, the terrible force swingingthe main current backward and forward from side to sidelike a drunken thing, careening one wave against the next,until the spectacle becomes at once grand and awe-in-spiring. The mad rushing of the waters churns and dashes thewaves first heavenward in snow white spray, then merci-lessly against the rocks that jut out into the boiling stream,until, pounded into a living mass of foam, it empties intothe Whirlpool three-quarters of a mile below the bridges. To get the most comprehensive view of the Rapids thevisitor should spend several minutes, the longer the better,on the Buttery observation rock, which is on a natural levelwith the water just at the foot of the Buttery fee is charged for occupying the rock, but to travel up ordown the elevators a distance of 300 fee
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