The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-08-30

among several carriages, Tor q visit
to Niagara, seven miles distant,
with instructions to reach the boat
at St. Catharines, between 4 and 5
] o'clock in the afternoon. The road
from this point to the Falls leads
over the battle ground of Lundy's
Lane. 1t follows the old course of
Lundy's Lane, for miles beautifully
and sometimes densely shaded by
evergreen and exciduous trees.
1t was over this road that Generals
Brown and Scott in leading the
American forces, some days after the
battle Of Chippe ga, suddenly found
Themselves confronted, about sunset,
by the British forces drawn up in
line of battle, on an eminence at the
head of the lane and in close prox-
Unity to Niagara. Up this road, for
Ia mile or more before it is reached,
may be seen the gentle activity on
which was posted the British bat
terry which swept such chasms in
1.-THE American ranks. Itwas up this
gentle and almost level slope, that
| Col. Miller led his regiments to the
charge, with the memorable words,
Cpl try, sir" on his lips, in response
to Browns inquiry if he could take
lyonder battery? Under cover Of
J the dense darkness which enshroud-
led this battlefield, even on a moon
light night, almost the entire length
of this road was passed in the lull
Iof the battle, before the muffled
tread of the march betrayed their ap-
proach and called forth the battery's
defiant flash. Here one of the regi-
ments broke and fed, whilst the 9th
er pushed on and drove the British
! Igunners from their guns down the
Iopposite descent toward the Falls.
Around this hill, now so beautiful
in all that makes nature so lovely,
was fought the most fiercely contest
ed battle of the American Continent
prior to the Rebellion. Three times
at the midnight hour, did the Eng
lish seek in vain to regain their bat
tery, with desperate charges, and
hand to hand encounters, whilst this
hill was wrapt in a blaze of fire, and
thea all was silence, as the cannon's
lecho died away unbroken, except by
the roar of the cataract mingling
with the groans of the dying, and
sounding its majestic requiem over
1.-THE dead.
The country around Lundy's
Lane battle ground, has lost nothing
in loveliness since we first saw it,
when a boy, twenty years ago. On
the summit Of the hill stands an OBJ
servatory, which we were urged to
ascend assured that from its top
could be seen, Lake Ontario,
Queenstown, Brooks Monument, Nj
agara, the Allegheny Mountains,
&C., whilst an old veteran Of Lun-
ldy's Lane would describe the points
= of interest on the battlefield. We
respectfully decline, promising, how
ever, to do so on our return in the
afternoon. Alas for human promis.
es. Circumstances rendered its full
fillment impossible.
A short drive from this point
through the village of Drummond
vile, and the American Falls burst
suddenly upon our view. Our car
riage stopping at a place whose char
Iaeter we did not stop closely to in
lspect, we inquired for our friends il
1.-THE other carriages, and were politely
Informed they were in one of the ad
ljacent rooms. Stepping in we founC
Yourselves unexpectedly in the ex
tensive museum, with which ever,
: visitor to the Canada side of tn
falls is familiar. Knowing that GU
- exit would cost at least a half dol
lar more than our entry, we settlet
: down to a half hours inspection
: of this extensive collection of speci
mems and curiosities, geological ant
o historical, and IN the department 0
: zoology ranging through the Who'll
q animal kingdom from the skeleton
: of a whale, seventy feet in length, t.
+ the minutest insect.
We were richly paid by our visit
# although it was not laid down o
, our programme, nor did we at a
f feel to complain of our ofiiciou
. friend who had so generously adde
" this to the list of places we had re
o solved our party should visit.
n After dinner we made the descen
$ beneath the Canada Falls. We wer
n anxious to do this personally, t
s mark the changes which twent
is years had wrought in the rock
re strata of Niagara. Table Rocl
d which at the time of our forme
IS descent projected so threatentngly
i hundred feet above our heads, no
j. lay in massive fragments at the bo
IF tom, as many feet beneath our fee
h We were reminded that time, in b
l. ruthless flight, is constantly layin
J. his hand even on the rocky walls {
If the great cataract. We remembers
how the Jesuit Father HennepI
ID who two hundred years ago wrot
ly perhaps the first description of Mi
D CARA, had described third fall foV
in ling east from the Canada side 1
n right angles with the main fall, an
g. caused by a huge rock separatin
and spreading out the waters; an
8 Ihow, hundred years later, a SWeet
,e Iish Naturalist had written of I'll
d, fall of this rock few years prev
x Gus to his visit. One foot per yea
lit is estimated the cataract reced,
ay toward Lake Erie. And then '
he thought how the same eternal mist
lie which now rise from the deep chasI
On the same rainbow glories which no
or crown the cataract's brow; the san
be monotonous roar, which, Varyi1
,st with the state of the atmospher
1T now and anon is heard but a sho
he distance. and then swelIs its deC
,r, chorus louder than thousand Bo
to ton Jubilees, across Lake Ontario
Toronto fifty miles distant, greett
n the eye and the ear of the Jesu
g, Father, and the Indians before hir
mt or wasted their glories unheard an
ed unseen by man, through the mar
in TENS of thousands years, marked c
to by this great dial of geologic tim
re. whilst the erasive action of the wa
ed Ter was clearing its way backwar
Sc through the solid rock from LAX