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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...of Canada and the important state of New York. Its clear waters are studded with the white sails of lake craft. Passenger steamers ply in abundance to the many cities which surround it, and long tows of barges bring down to the sea the agricultural treasures of the west. The rivers which fall into the lake are not important. The largest is the Trent. The main feeder of the lake is the Niagara river which, in its short course from Lake Erie, drops 326 feet not only over the Niagara Falls but in rapids above and below. The Niagara Falls have been the theme of so many descriptions, not only in guide-books but by writers of great literary eminence, that it is difficult to write about them, and the more they are known and the longer one tarries within the sound of the falling waters the less one is inclined to attempt to describe them. The enormous volume impresses the mind only by degrees; for at first sight it is not realised, and the steady unintermitting flow of the cataracts slowly impresses the nerves by its solemn and monotonous roar. Nothing now detracts from the full enjoyment of the scene. All the pestilent swarms of touters, of curiosity-dealers, of fakirs and mountebanks are utterly swept away on both sides of the river, and beautiful grounds, cared for by public officers, skirt the banks of the falls and rapids, both in Ontario and in the state of New York. On the Canadian side the park is longer, for the river makes a deep curve; but an electric railway runs through its whole length and a visitor may stop anywhere his fancy dictates. The Niagara river did not form part of the main route to the west in the earliest days of the colony. That was by the Ottawa and French rivers to the Strait of Mackinac; so that Lakes Huron, Michigan, and to a great ex...

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