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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Falls, the rapids of the Iroquois,and the part called the river St. Marie. The St. Marie is navigable for boats,though not for larger vessels; a portage of ten miles (soon to be supersededby ship canal) conveys merchandise around the Falls of Niagara, and therapids of the Iroquois present so slight a hinderance, that goods are broughtfrom Montreal to Queenston for nearly the same price as they would payby unobstructed navigation. It is necessary to remember the extent of the waters which feed Ni-agara, to conceive, when standing for an hour only on the projecting rocks,how this almighty wonder can go on so long. Even then,— that these in-land seas lie above, tranquil and unexhausted, scarce varying their high-water mark perceptibly, from year to year, yet supplying, for every hour, the1 ninety millions of tons, which, it is estimated, plunge over the cataract,—it affords you a standard for the extent of those lakes, to which the utmoststretch of mind seems scarcely competent. 582
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NIAGARA FALLS (From the top of the ladder on the American side) THIS is often the first near and general view of the falls, and it is wellcalculated to produce the most astonishing impression on any one sud-denly introduced to it. Supposing him to have arrived from Lockport, bya tedious progress through the forests, the visitor is conducted through abeautiful wood, presenting scenery of the softest character. But, with theroar of the cataract in his ear, he hurries rapidly through, till he stands onthe very verge of the Fall, at the point where its mighty waters descend inone solemn unbroken mass into a gulf of spray, rising in clouds from thetortured waves beneath, and driven about by the gusts, till sometimes thewhole river beneath, and the opposite shores, are momentarily concealedAs this misty curtain is withdrawn, the whole scene is disclosed. Beyondthe American fall, which is immediately before him, and the wooded steepsof Goat Island, he sees the sublime curve of the Horse-shoe

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