Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-07
MEANWHILE some of us walked

wood. Meanwhilel some of US walked
around the city little.
On the following day we were out OF
sight of land nearly all the time. We
had distant view of the Ohio shore.
When we arose next morning we found
ourselves in the Welland Ship Canal.
This canal is twent-eight miles long, and
contains twenty.seven locks. 1t was
built forty years ago to enable vessels to
pass Niagara Falls and rapids. 1t has been
enlarged two or three times, and is to be
widened and deepensd again soon. II
our boat was three inches wider it would
be impossible to pass all of the locks.
We could find Niagara Falls by the
cloud that always hangs over it, as If per-
petually taking birds eye view and ad-
miring its beautiful scenery.
We left the boat at Thorold, and taking
hack, rode to Niagara Falls, distance
of seven miles. In going, we passed over
the battle field of Lundy's Lane. A vii
lage is situated on the spot and many rel
les of the battle are shown to visitors.
The Falls of Niagara have been written
on so much that description of them
seems useless here. We will merely say
to those who have not seen them, that
they are what they are said to be. The
grandeur of the scenery exceeds anything
we ever saw before. Fancy fall hun
dred and seventy-fve feet high, and near
ly mile wide. Can it be anything but
the hight of the superb and the grand
On the Canada side is situated the Cliff
ton House, notorious in history as the
rendezvous of some of the leaders of the
rebels lin the late war. Many of the
ringleaders came here for protection from
our government, and here concocted their
plans and signifed them to their accom-.
plices on the American side.
When we returned to Thorold we found
that the Nashua had only passed through
two locks in the seven hours we were
gone, en- account of the great number OF
boats in the canal. The next morning
was Sunday and we found ourselves in the
canal, where we must stay till Monday
morning, as they refuse to pass boats on
Sunday. We had passed through eigh'
teen locks on the previous day, and were
within two miles of the city of st. Cath,
crimes, where we went to church in the
forenoon. We went to hear a Scotch
Presby terrain minister, who preached 6
very good though lengthy sermon. In
the evening we attended a Methodist
church near the boat. Here the sermon
was over an hour in length though the
service was quite short That night al
twelve o'clock, we started for Port Dial
housie, where We arrived at daylight
This is the end Of the canal, and we load
ed here eight hundred barrels of -four
which had been carried by rail tc
Tighten the boat so that it could pass
through We found some very fine spec
linens of petrifed branches of trees, and
shells on shore. After going cut into Lake
Ontario, the water was very rough and
the weather very unpleasant. We saw 6
great many butterflies flying round wher
we were out of sight of land.
The next morning we stopped at Cape
Vincent, after which we entered the st
Lawrence river and passed through the
Thousand Islands. We stopped at Clay
ton and Alexandria Bay few minutes
Both are beautiful places. The largest
OF these island thirty-fve hundred acres
and is twenty miles long. The smallest
contains one square foot The great va,
ration in size and shape of these islands
together with the great number, and the
picturesque way in which they are dotted
over the surface of the broad river, forms
sight we'll worth seeing.
We arrived at Ogdensburg at noon and
took the cars for home, having had TRIP
IF over four thousand miles in four weeks
We advise all contemplating a sum
mer trip to take this into consideration
az we think it by far the pleasantest, the
cheapest, most instructive and healthy
trip possible. S. NJ.