The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-08-15

from the top to the bottom of the Cliff.
You look up and you look down, and
reason. l. | should fall? Look at those
rocks lightly suspended over my head
You 90 on thinking, | will trust to luck.
A short walk along the ledge, and you
fird your guide, the journey begins over
a series of bridges spanning the rocks
forty feet i'll front of the falls, which
stretch to the entrance to the Cave OF
the Winds, lying under Centre Falls.
The entrance is between Centre and
American Falls. You are now ON the |
first briGge, probably twenty ieet and II
there is excitement it is supre mcls reign
ing now. With a heavy spray, dealening |
roar, and the falls, imsgnatively falling |
on you, your desire is to pass on, out the
guide says: IL ,ok up quick at The faiIs!
You turn TO look, and meet a storm -oi
spray in the face, you look aud look, and
from time to time secure monetary
glimpses of Il sheet OF water towering
165 feet. The balance Of the bridgeway
is less tempestuous, and you have
better view. You enter the appropriately
called. Cave of the Winds, but cave of
hades would be a far filter appellatiOn.
The cave is one hundred feet wide, sixty
| feet in diameter, aud one hundred ieet
| high Ii Was formed by the action OF the
water on the solt substratum of thu
| nh IA.
aud the lines one rock left arching
overhead thirty feet beyond the base.
The water falls like Il beautiful curtain
IN front. Owing to the pressure of the
atmosphere, the elements conflicting, Eli
the cave with perpetual storms.
As soon as We catered, most appli-
cable recol!ec;io occurred to me-shat
one OF two bishops said to the other,
when he went through tunnel For the
first time in his life, being startled he
Jumped up and vehemently exclaimed:
"Blshcp we are i'll hell y For 1t certainly
exceeds any place that | had ventured
J into, and | thimk the case was the same
with the Others in the party. Ia passing
under, you walk along sill OF rocks
with no room to spare, the guide leading
Won holding Oh to hands. Il Is short
trip ID reality, but while going through
for the first time it seems twice as long.
If there is any person you feel dependent
on il is the guide without mistake. gu
f emerge from the cave near the place
where YOU started from going over the
o bridges. When you have gone through
r once you have a stroJg desire to make
the trip again, but time was precious as
e well as money with me just then, 50
pushed on.
Y It. was near the Biddle Stairs that San
|, Patch made his leaps in 1929.
Another five minutes walk along thu
10 rapids and you see the three Siste
= Islands, which are connected with Goa
" Island by three small bridges. The cur
rent is so strong between these islands
and the facination so great, that many
person unpremeditatedly commits SUI
: eide. by jumping over Oh the sudden an
irresistible inpulse of the moment. Gal
- Thursday, August 9Th, person CON
= mitted suicide at this very place.
- At the head of Goat Island you obtal
a magnificent view of the placid Niagara
- which little looks as though it could b
metamorphosed into such Il raging to
rant only "A short distance below, al
- looking out you see Navy Island, Il
- site of old Fort Schlosser, and the Ca
- madam town of Chippewa.
:, You have traversed a distance of aoo
- two miles, and you now proceed to Fro
49, pect Park, adjacent to the Americ;
% Falls in the town of Niagara. Here
MAGNIFICENT view is obtained of t
%, American, Centre and Horse Shoe Fal
From this park an inclined rail-"
carries YOU to the bottom of the eli
where YOU stand in awe aud wonderme
at the base of the American Falls
- quarter of IA mile wide, which have
49,. perpendicular height of l64 feet, a
- over which not less than one hundl
o,n aud fifty millions of cubic ieet OF wa
PASS every minute. Their irregular
line, iu one place projected, at anotl
Ike deeply indented, causes this imme
body of water that passes over. to extt
ace out in many places, stirring the water
,ver snowy whiteDess, and thus wat
3 70 curtains falls from age to age, shut
,y.s nothing from view. but presenting IN
rim self a picture, indescribable, maJes
ON and sublime.
From Prospect Park you hire ca
f,.o age to convey you to the whirlpool
distance of two miles from the fl
t. This distance from the foot OF the IL
the angry river flows at great del
49, sullenly, and comprehensive of stu
dous power, under green veil. AT
r, Whirlpool Rapids the cloud bursts,
the concentrated force rises as far d
iced Ine oo''0' '"' o.h;,,, hin
,,. as the eye can scan, in seethlng Dill
in some places thirty feet above
, shore. The most incredible part OF
whirlpool, is that there are no rock
.ra the current whatever aud that as ia
- can be estimated it has depth OF
60. a5O 10 400 feet. You could easily
nrehepd. how with force Ike
him obtained from the lal'S' ""'o' oo'''"
No over rocks to height OF thirty ieet'
d un- how it can be done en- rely by an VI
p.,.; current is amazing, aud 1t Is TINS pc
.r;tv that makes the Whirlpool Rs