Niagara

ITS

HISTORY AND GEOLOGY,

INCIDENTS AND POETRY,

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

GEORGE W. HOLLEY.

New York City:

SHELDON AND COMPANY.

BREED, LENT AND CO., BUFFALO, N.Y.

HUNTER, ROSE AND CO., TORONTO.

1872.

Can 6008.1

Harv rd Ollege Library

Bequest of

FRANCIS PARKMAN
17 Jan. 1894

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1872, by
GEORGE W. HOLLEY,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

Hunter, Rose, & Co.,
Printers, Toronto, Canada.

To the Memory

OF MY DEPARTED FRIENDS

PETER A. PORTER

AND

JOEL R. ROBINSON

I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME.

IN the conventional code of human homiletics they were separated in their lives by the accident of birth and difference of education; but by their unselfish natures, their genial and gentle susceptibilities and sympathies, their love of Nature and thorough enjoyment of its ever varying moods and phases, they were on fit occasions fit and willing associates. The one, answering the sharp, quick summons of the battle field, gave his life for his country.

The other, after having repeatedly saved the life of others, gave up his own from a bed of sickness.

In that sphere of divine and all embracing Charity whither they have gone, the pure gold of their lives, freed from all earthly alloy, will shine with equal lustre, and they who were companions in time may be friends forever.

* *

With them the author had many pleasant excursions on the waters and along the shores of the Niagara River. * * * Will the links of the broken chain be reunited in the Endless Hereafter?

GEORGE W. HOLLEY.

ERRATA.

On page 15, line 16, for "Vista" read "Vesta."
On page 28, line 8, omit "the" before "Niagara."
On page 53, line 25, in part of this edition the word
"geodiferous" is erroneously spelt "grodiferous."

On page 59, line 9, for "those " read "these."

On page 73, line 12, for "gradually" read "grandly."