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Every Man His Own Guide at Niagara Falls; Without the Necessity of Inquiry or Possibility of Mistake, Including the Sources of Niagara, and All Places of Interest, Both on the American and Canada Side - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1852. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... falls down; and it has been believed that in this way there.has been, a recession of about fifty yards in about forty years; but this is now generally admitted to have been overstated. There is at least a probable recession of about one foot every year: though part.of the fall may go back faster than this; yet if you regard the whole river, even this probably will be something of an exaggeration. Our observations upon this point are necessarily imperfect; and when we reflect that fifty years ago the country was perfectly wild, and inhabited by bears, wolves, and here and there a hunter, we shall think it surprising that we have any observations at all, even for such a period back. We have an account of the falls, given by Father Hennepin, a French Missionary, who gives an exaggerated description of them, and yet one which is tolerably correct. He represents a cascade as falling from the Canada side across the other two. He says that between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, there is a vast and wonderful waterfall; after speaking of this, he says there is a third cascade at the left of the other two, falling from west to east, the other fafline from south to north. He several times alludes to the third cascade, which he says was smaller than the other two. Now, those who consider that because Father Hennepin gave the height of the falls at six hundred feet, small vahie is to bo attached to his testimony respecting any part of the country, do him injustice. I think it perfectly evident that there must have been such a third cascade, falling from west to east, as that to which he alludes. A Danish naturalist, in the year 1750, who came to this country and visited the falls, of which he has also given us a description, which was published in the Gentleman's Magazine, in 1...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151585254
- ISBN 13 9781151585257
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages30
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