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Identifier: newenglandmagaziv37bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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ay from their nostrils, and pushed on, with enough todo to keep sight of his heels. It is difficult enough to breathe within; but with a little self-controland management, the nostrils may be guarded from the watery particle in theatmosphere, and then an impression is made upon the mind by the extraor-dinary pavilion above and around, which never loses its vividness. Thenatural bend of the falling cataract, and the backward shelve of the preci-pice, form an immense area like the interior of a tent, but so pervaded bydischarges of mist and spray, that it is impossible to see far inward. Out-ward the light struggles brokenly through the crystal wall of the cataract;and when the sun shines directly on its face, it is a scene of unimaginableglory. The footing is rather unsteadfast, a small shelf composed of looseand slippery stones; and the abyss below boils like — it is difficult to find acomparison. On the whole, it is an undertaking rather pleasanter to re-member than to achieve. 588
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View below Table Rock, Niagara Falls MEN AND AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON By DAVID S. BARRY Senatorial Homes in Washington : The Rebuke to William Windom : Senators Whose Homes Are in Washington and New York Rather than in Their Districts : The Hotel Habit ; Tom Reeds Way : How Some of the Elder Statesmen Did It : Private John Allens Joke : How New England Senators Live in Washington.

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