Identifier: newenglandmagaziv37bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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nce of the long covered ladder by which thedescent to the ferry is accomplished. At an opening in it, half way downthe precipice, people7 usually stop (in spite of their hurry, and that absorb-ing matter, the care of their baggage) to enjoy the only view, perhaps, whichbrings them near to the falling column in the midst of its descent. It is, in-deed, horribly beautiful. No one has better described the effect some-times produced on the mind at Niagara, than Basil Hall. uOn Sunday night, the eighth of July, we returned to the Falls, andwalked down to the Table Rock, to view them by moonlight. Our expec-tations, as may be supposed, were high, but the sight was more impressivethan we had expected. It possessed, it is true, what may be called a moresober kind of interest than that belonging to the wild scene behind the sheetof water above described. I may mention one curious effect: — it seemed tothe imagination not impossible that the Fall might swell up, and grasp usin its vortex. 584
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THE LANDING ON THE AMERICAN SIDE (Falls of Niagara) TT was formerly thought impossible for anybody living to come at theA. island that is in the middle of the Fall; but an accident that happenedtwelve years ago made it appear otherwise. The history is this: Two In-dians of the Six Nations went out from Niagara Fort to hunt upon an islandthat is in the middle of the river, or strait, some miles above the great Fall,on which there used to be abundance of deer. They took some Frenchbrandy with them from the fort, which they tasted several times as they werecarrying their canoe around the Fall; and when they were in the canoe, theynow and then took a dram, and so went along up the strait toward the islandwhere they proposed to hunt; but growing sleepy, they laid themselves downin the canoe, which, getting loose, drove back with the stream further andfurther down, till it came nigh that island that is in the middle of the Fall.Here, one of them, awakened by the noise, cries out to the othe

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