New-York daily tribune., 1843-06-28
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NIAGARA FALLs, June g. 1873.
In nothing is the go-aheaduteeaess OF our
people more sgndlly manifest than IN Their man
ner of visiting Niagara Falls. And IN no other
instance perhaps could the exercise OF this, III
the main, commendable trait deprive the Traveller
of so much real satisfaction, SO much elevated
and eleyatng enjoyment 1t Is no greater folly
to undertake to sleep with one eye open, ano
hope thus TO rest and refresh the body, than 1t Is
to hurry by the Great Cataract and nope to be
enabled to understand and appreciate all OF It's
grand and impressive character. The tr1lth Is
most of our people are too enterprising 70 be re-
Aectve, too much in a hurry to be phlosoPhlc
too practical and laborious 10 indulge IN and
cherish those more refined and exalted sentiments
of the soul which redeem;lt from the Gust and
vindicate its lmmortahty.t
Thousands OF persons asrive at the Falls about
II O'Clock A. NJ. from the East or West, leave
at half two P. M dine in.the meantime, then go
ON their way rejoicing end discourse 10 their
friends and acoualntances OF the sublmlty Of
Niagara! The man who went physically through
a college building from front to rear was as we'll
acquainted afterwards with the bellesle lettres anc
sciences, as these gentry are with Niagara alter
such visit.
Doubtless the spectacle is impressive, at the
first glance, from any point whence good view
is obtained; but how much more so when viewed
from various points and under different aspects
OF course you viii not expect me to attempt
description. When | see such an attempt am
reminded Of young man who first looked upon
the horseshoe tall from the soutbwesterly corner
of Goat Island. At the first view, clasplDg ms
hands before him, he exclaimed Great God -
then pausng moment and dropping MS ildhds
without parting them, he added Amen - as
be had fpjf at
language to express his emotions, or describe the
scene Yet | may be permitted to say that he
who does not see Niagara In the calm and quiet
of early morning when the column OF spray Is
rising far and maestcally INTO the skies, as II II
would present its matln orlsons at the very gate
Of heaven, while near its top the fragment OF a
rainbow is traced by the first rays of the sum-
beng now, as in the older time, sign of peace
10 all below ;-he who does not see its waters
flashing, and toaming in the splendors of the
meridian sun, or grow dark beneath the dark
clouds of the storm which gathers above while
the deep under tone, the sublime bass OF the tall
ing sheet Is made, by the increased density OF
the atmosphere, more iearfully impressive, and
pours forth an awful prelude to the music of the
coming storm ;--he who does not induce the
ferry.man to row him up into the 1oaming caldron
that he may feel and realize the mighty pulse of
90 out to the end Of the inbcrs of the old terra
pin bridge, and, hanging Immediately ever the
fearful chasu, gaze long and directly into it, and
watch the troubled waters as they pile themselves
higher and higher and send up less and less
of spray, until the foaming mass breaks by Its
own weight and again the great cloud comes up
from the bottom and conceals the Whole he
who does not ascend the tower and after icastng
his eyes by gazing upon both the horse shoe and
American Falls and the long line of fearful
gulf below, then turn and feast them again with
aview of the mimic falls and the leaping rock
In the rapids above, and the calm waters and
peaceful country still beyond he who does not
grasp the whole transcendent scene from Table
Rock ;-he who does not GO to the top of the
terrace above Lewiston, to the Whirlpool, and
when at this latter place, down to the waters
edge where he can see the great rut3es OF water
rolled high above, and large trees fifty or sixty
feet in length and from two to three in diameter
twisted about in the curling waters as If they
were the merest play-things, here sucked down
end.wisc for out OF sight, and anon shot up again,
more than half their length out of the water then
falling once more upon the surface to continue
their ceaseless evolutlons he who does not do
all this time and again-and study, contemplate
and reflect upon these things, does not get ac-
guainted with Niagara.
Dut my letter is getung TOO long yet cannot
promise that you shall not have more hereafter,
OF the same subject; not however until tler |
have visited the great valley of the Mississippi,
whence purpose to return and tarry awhile
longer amid thus enchanting scenery.
Yours, &c. RoBT RAMBLE.
Chtcago-Lts Site-The Prairie-Crops, IL
Correspondence OF The Tribune,
CHICAGO, (lllinois June ts 1918
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Michigan at the mouth OF Chicago River, which
makes an excellent hsGbor The River is moi
navigable more than mile from the Lake; but
running through the midGe of The c;,,. ~ =.