The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts |
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American Fall American side bank beautiful boat bottom Brock's Monument Buffalo Canadian side canoe cataract channel chasm Chippewa Creek cross depth descent distance feet deep feet high feet higher feet long feet wide fell two hundred fifty feet flows foam foot formed Fort Niagara Fort Schlosser forty feet Genesee River Goat Island grand Grand Island half Horseshoe Fall hundred feet Hurons Indians Iroquois Judge Porter Lake Erie Lake Michigan Lake Ontario land Lewiston limestone lying mass of rock miles Moss Islands nearly Neuter Nation Niagara Falls Niagara River Opposite perpendicular plunge precipice present Railway Suspension Bridge rapids reached retrocession Robinson rocky rods rope says scene Schlosser shale shore sixty feet skiff spray stream surface Table Rock thence thousand tower tree twenty feet upper upward valley visited voyage waters fall Whirlpool width wind wonder writer