. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . VIII. At Niagara the existence of the Great Lakes benefits theeye as well as the imagination. If the falls were fed by rivers,their volume, which now varies very little, would conspicuouslywax and wane with the changing seasons. Again, new-bornriver-waters would be thickened and discolored with sedimentand sand. Niagaras are strained to an exquisite purity bytheir sojourn in the Western reservoirs, and to this purity theyowe their exquisite variety of color. To find their blues we must look, of course, above GoatIsland
. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . VIII. At Niagara the existence of the Great Lakes benefits theeye as well as the imagination. If the falls were fed by rivers,their volume, which now varies very little, would conspicuouslywax and wane with the changing seasons. Again, new-bornriver-waters would be thickened and discolored with sedimentand sand. Niagaras are strained to an exquisite purity bytheir sojourn in the Western reservoirs, and to this purity theyowe their exquisite variety of color. To find their blues we must look, of course, above GoatIsland, where the sky is reflected in smooth if quickly flowing. The Horseshoe from Inspiraticn Point. currents. But every other tint and tone that water can takeis visible in or near the falls themselves. In the quieter partsof the gorge we find- a very dark, strong green, while in itsrapids all shades of green and gray and white are shallower rapids above the falls are less strongly colored,a beautiful light green predominating between the pale-grayswirls and the snowy crests of foam—semi-opaque, like the 25 stone called aqua-marine, because infused with countless air-bubbles, yet deliciously fresh and bright. The tense, smoothslant of water at the margin of the American Fall is not deepenough to be green. In the sunshine it is a clear amber, andwhen shadowed, a brown that is darker, yet just as pure. Butwherever the Canadian Fall is visible its green crest is con-spicuous. Far down-stream, nearly two miles away, wherethe railroad bridge crosses the gorge, it shows like a littleemerald strung on a narrow band of pearl. Its color is
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