Identifier: bookofsummerres00swee (find matches)
Title: Book of summer resorts, explaining where to find them, how to find them, and their especial advantages, with details of time tables and prices ..
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Sweetser, Charles H. (Charles Humphreys), 1841-1871
Subjects: Summer resorts Summer resorts
Publisher: New York, "Evening mail" office
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e bank to theWhirlpool on both sides, and though somewhat difficult todescend and ascend, it is accomplished almost every day.The Devils Hole, 1 mile farther down, is also a point ofgreat attraction, together with the Bloody Run, a smallstream, where a detachment of English soldiers were pre-cipitated in their flight from an attack by Indians duringthe old French war in 1T59. An amphitheatre of highground spreads around and perfectly incloses the valley ofthe Devils Hole, with the exception of a narrow ravineformed by Bloody Run, from which, against a large force,there is no escape, except over the precipice. The Ice Caveis another object of interest connected with the DevilsHole ; and Chasm Tower, three and a half miles below theFalls, 75 feet high, commands fine views (seen, if youplease, in all hues, through a specular medium) of all thecountry round. A fee is required. The Rapids below the Whirlpool are the next object ofattraction; then Queenstown Heights and Brock s Monu- w o §
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SPEINGS A-NT> FALLS. 81 ment on tlie Canadian side, and tlie Suspension Bridge atLewiston. Queenstown is well wortliy a visit from the so-journer at tlie Falls, and affords a most delightful drive.It is historically as well as pictorially interesting. HereGeneral Brock and. his aid-de-camp McDonnell fell, Octo-ber 11th, 1812. Brocks Monument, which crowns theheights ^bove the village, is 185 feet high, surmounted bya dome of 9 feet, which is reached by a spiral flight of 250steps from the base inside. The remains of Brock and hiscomrade lie in stone sarcophagi beneath, having been re-moved thither from Fort George. This is the second mo-nument erected on the spot, the first having been destroy-ed by Lett, in 1840. The Suspension Bridge, at this point,was built by two joint-stock companies, one incorporatedby the Legislature of New-York State, and the other bythe Provincial Parliament. The roadway is 849 feet long,20 feet wide, 60 feet above the water; cost, ;58,000; erect-ed, 1850.

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