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Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel, 1842-1910
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel Canada -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : John C. Winston
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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whole enormous volume from the vastlake region of North America, draining a territoryequalling the entire continent of Europe, poursthrough this contracted channel out of Lake Erie.There is a swift current for a couple of miles, butafterwards the speed is gentler as the channelbroadens, and Grand Island divides it. Then it re-unites into a Avider stream, flowing sluggishly west-ward, small islands dotting the surface. About lif-teen miles from Lake Erie the river narrows and therapids begin. They flow with great speed for a mileabove the falls, in this distance descending fifty-twofeet, Goat Island dividing their channel at the brinkof the cataract, where the river makes a bend fromthe west back to the north. This island separatesthe waters, although nine-tenths go over the Cana-dian fall, which the abrupt bend curves into horse-shoe form. This fall is about one hundred and fifty-eight feet high, the height of the smaller fall on theAmerican side being one hundred and sixty-four feet.
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TyE NEW YORKPIIPIIC LIPRARY L NIAGARA. S81 The two cataracts spread out to forty-seven hundredand fifty feet breadth, the steep wooded bank ofGoat Island, separating them, occupying about one-fourth the distance. The American fall is abouteleven hundred feet wide and the Canadian fall twicethat width, the actual line of the descending waterson the latter being much larger than the breadth ofthe river because of its curving form. Recentchanges, caused by falling rock in the apex of thisfall, have, however, made it a more symmetricalhorseshoe than had been the case for years. TheNiagara River, just below the cataract, contracts toabout one thousand feet, widening to twelve hundredand fifty feet beneath the new single-arch steel bridgerecently constructed a short distance farther down.For seven miles the gorge is carved out, the riverbanks on both sides rising to the top level of thefalls, and the bottom sinking deeper and deeper asthe lower rapids descend towards Lewiston, and insome pl

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