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Title: Anthology and bibliography of Niagara Falls
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Dow, Charles Mason, 1854-1920
Subjects: Plants
Publisher: Albany, J.B. Lyon Company, Printers
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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ed; but all other tolls are wrong, beingwholly unnecessary. We saw a great many beautiful birds, both in the surroundingwoods and on the islands. There were two or three sorts oforioles, blue-birds, cardinal grosbeaks, and numbers of theAmerican robins; birds as ubiquitous as our sparrows, and aboutthe size of a large blackbird. Unfortunately, they are consid-ered good eating, and therefore, as they are very tame, becomean easy prey to every little wretch who carries a gun. 1875 1875 MORRIS, WILLIAM. Letters sent home. Out and home again by wayMorns 0f Canada and the United States; or, What a summers trip told me of the people and the country of the great West. Lond.: F. Warne. N. Y.:Scribner, Welford and Armstrong. (1875.) Pp. 202-235. It was very early in the morning when I left Toronto to crossLake Ontario in one of the river steamers — a floating town.But the weather was beautiful, and the air most bracing. Thedistance across the lake is thirty miles, which brings us to the 1110
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u UJ Preservation of the Falls mouth of the Niagara River, connecting Lake Ontario with Lake 1875Erie. The river is by no means wide, and the country on eitherside is somewhat low and monotonous. Entering the river, wehave Fort Massauga, a Canadian fortress, on the right, and FortNiagara, an American fortress, directly opposite, on the left.Passing up the river, the banks on either side have more theappearance of a canal than of a river, being of a generally uni-form slope. Six miles up the river we came to Lewiston, wherewe landed, and for the first time I here set foot on Americansoil. Having been discharged by the Custom House officer, whowas stationed here to examine our baggage, we were taken bybus for about a mile to a railway station, and after another rideof about six miles along the top of the rocky and precipitous leftside of the river, we arrived at the Falls railway station. Theride to this place was a most exciting one. In front there werethe Falls, seen as yet only by th

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