The Newtown bee., 1878-09-26

child was selected for the sacrifice He
 was brave warrior and made no sign of
 distress, but the Indian fathers loyo Wps
 greater than all else, and before she came
 to the point of descent ha had reached
 her In another white eanoe, and together
 the father and child went over the Falls
 Into eternity. There Is an Indian tribe,
 or rather it's remnants. living now about
 nine mllos from Niagara, and they brln.
 their bead and basket work, their feath-
 CT fans, and trlnkets of all kinds. and sell
 thom To the fancy stores with which the
 village nbounds.
 There is much to study about Niagara.
 Goat Island, which gives us an opportunl-
 ty to go ont upon the very verge of the
 Horse Shoe Fall, and to visit the Cave of
 the Winds, the three beautiful Sister Is.
 lands, the rapids rushing over It's stony
 bed, the beautiful little cascades in the
 river above the Falls, by which 1t makes
 adcsccnt of nearly sixty feet in the course
 of n mile, tho wonderful whirlpool rapids,
 where the water rushes through narrow
 channel at the rate of twenty-five miles
 m hour, and throws its spray twenty or
 thirty feet into the air, the sudden turn
 In the river which forms the whirlpool,
 and above all the perpendicular doscent
 Of the Horse Shoe Falls, one hundred and
 ilfty-eight feet, and of the Amcrican
 Falls, one hundred and siXty-four feet
 where 1t unitos below and flows calmly onward. To feel that from all time this mighty flood has flowed just as it does now. and that 1t never ceases day or night, and that it will continue as long as the world endurcs, gives one realizing sense of the Almighty Power, such as we doubt if any other thing in Nature can give.
 From here we turned our way towards | Watkins. intending to visit the famous glen, of which so much has been said by travellers in that locality. The village of Watkins lies in a narrow valley at the | head of Seneca Lake, a remarkable body | of water forty miles long and from two to five miles wide. Both shoes are a sue ccsslon of hills, and the scenery is very fine. They tell us that even in the cold ost weather in winter the lake rarely freezes, having been known to do so but once in fourtetn n years. All alo g the shores are places which some history or legend of the Indian has made interest ing, and we listened with pleasure to helr of the days when the Senecas inhabited all that region, and lived their forest life.
 Two days after our arrival we visited the Watkins Glen, the entrance of which Is but few rods from the main street of the village. The glen is situated ill a narrow gorge, between two hills, which everywhere give me the impression that they have been torn asunder by some convulsion of nature centuries ago, and d stream of water has cut its way through the rock, making its descent by success sion of glens, by numerous cascades and rapids, falling section by section until it has made total descent of about eight hundred feet, when 1t p0urs itself quietly Into the lake. It is a wonderful and strikingly beautiful work of Nature. Wo enter the narrow rift in the rocks before us, from which the stream of water issues, and we see one of the widest scenes of l the Glen, the Entrance Cascade, which dasheS down sixty feet into the pool be- low. A few steps more and we seem shut out from the outer world entirely, except for the narrow strip Of blue sky and sunshine we see through the foliage, hundreds of feet above us. By the aid of staircase5, pathways and bridges we wend our way along by the str cam, en- toying the cool fresh air, which seems laden with the fragrance of many flow CTS, which with the ferns grow here to { almost tropical size. We pass through ! Glen Alpha and Still Water Gorge to the second cascade which is called Mime haha Though broken in it's fall many times it yet leaps very gracefully from ledge to ledge. Still we wind our way along sometimes by the narrOwcst of pathways cut into the side of the rock, sometimes wondering how we can go much farther, the way seems so impassi- q blo, and we can see so short distance before us, but the way always opens, and another glen with new beauties is before us. L Glen Cathedral i. considered the most NF 4LN x.1n tG tnh wider than any other point and seems like vast amphitheatre the cliffs being here nearly three hundred feet high. The slate rock is nearly as smooth as a floor, and the transparent stream ripples over 1t with pleasant murmuring sound. The Glen of the Pools is another beautiful place. named from the number of rock basins in it. The water in the pools is so clear that even when it is ten or fifteen feet deep you can sec to the bottom. A little farther on we came to the Triple Cascade, considered by most tourists the finest in the glen. It is in throe portions, one above another, and forms a beautiful combination. The Rainbow Falls is just here, a little stream trickling down from the top of the mountain, forming q crys- ! tai veil behind which we pass on our way through the glen. Frequently we find - seats near some of the finest views, where we can rest awhile and take ill the beauty all about us. The Artists Dream B is spot where the eye fingers long with f delight Rock, sky and foliage with peeps of sunshine through it. pools and cascade produce picture of as wild " beauty as can well be imagined. Passing onward we come to Pluto Falls. sort of a subterranean gallery where the sun never \ shines. Many are especially pleased with this place, looking down upon the descent of the Falls into the deep dark sc basin below. Finally we come to the new II
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