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white ckmd rising , which we Boon teamed was the spray . The steamboat stopped a little above the rapids , where stages were waiting to take us forward . On arriving at the hotel , you may be sure we did not lose any time in hastening to satisfy our curiosity ; but were much surprised to find that our ears were not sooner
assailed by the sound , as travellers have generally given very wonderful accounts of the distance at which the sound was to be heard . Two miles was the utmost distance at which it was to be perceived , and then not without considerable attention .
Indeed , when close to them , I was rather surprised that the sound was not much more overpowering . It ; would be the height of presumption in me to pretend to describe this wonder , evea if so many had not made the attempt before me . The
most that I can do is to tell , as well as I can , ( though even that is not a very easy task , ) the effect which it had on my own mind . They are stupendous , sublime and awful , but not at all terrific . At first sight I was a
little disappointed with the height , but that may be accounted for by their being so much wider than I had any idea of , and also from the rising of the spray , rising- so thick as totally to obscure the fall of water for a
great many feet . The sensation of incessant and endless hurry , which the immense rush of water excited , was exceedingly overpowering . I felt , as I stood gazing , as though I had for
the first time got a glimpse of eternity , and was so overwhelmed with it that I could only sit down and weep . This excess of agitation by degrees wore off , but still I felt it to be the
most fatiguing thing I had ever met with to watch its constant and neverceasing hurry . A party of us set off to go under the sheet of water , or rather under the projecting rock over which the water falls ; but Mr . . and myself were the only ones who had courage to go all the way . Indeed , though it did not appear to me
to require any great exertion of courage , it certainly called forth no small degree of resolution , for the rush of water creates a perfect hurricane which threatens , just as you enter behind the sheet of water , to overpower you altogether . We staid
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from the morning of one 4 ay till the afternoon of the next , a length , of time with which , I believe , almost every one is satisfied . We returned to Buffalo , where Mr . had previously provided a private carriage to take us across the interior of New York State and Pennsylvania to
Northumberland , where we were under a promise to pay a visit . As our route now lay through the interior of the country , there were few remarkable objects to arrest our progress . We passed a great many deep woods , high mountains , rich plains and valleys , fine rivers , beautiful creeks and neat towns . We sometimes met with
rather curious adventures , such as being told at one place that we could only have one room amongst us ; but as there were three beds in the room it did not seem to be thought any
thing out of the way ; and on our taking possession of the three beds and sending Mr . to provide for himself , he was packed into another room where a man and his wife were
already lodged . In another place the only sleeping-room was the loft of a shingle house , where the boards were so open that we might have studied astronomy between them , and in this place ten persons were accommodated , two beds being awarded to us ,
which were so far superior that they had a few boards put up around them , which gave so me thing the appearance of separate rooms . I believe we did not relish these scenes very much at the time , but I am glad since that we met with them , since it has shewn me the
perfect propriety and decorum which the people preserve in such situations . One of the beds was occupied by our driver and the driver of a stage , who acquitted themselves with as mucb propriety as any gentlemen could do . Indeed , throughout the whole of the route we were struck with the great
propriety of the people ' s behaviour . We never saw any drunkenness , nor ever , I may almost say , heard an oath : the masters of the boats were gentlemen , and the drivers perfectly civil and obliging ; and , what is still more to say , we never in the many miles which we travelled over saw
any appearance of want . The humblest log hut that we passed was surrounded with patches of potatoes , corn , buck-wheat and flax , a stack or
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656 Description of a Tour from Philadelphia to the Falls of Niagara .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1826, page 656, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2554/page/20/
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