Identifier: seasonof1890summ00gran (find matches)
Title: Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
Subjects: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada Railroads Summer resorts
Publisher: Battle Creek, Mich. : Wm C. Gage & Son
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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NIAGARA FALLS. 51

The great maelstrom, called the Whirlpool, some distance below
the Falls, excites much interest. Its depths are unknown; a 1,000-
foot cord was found too short to reach its bottom. There are three
distinct cataracts; the Horseshoe Fall, so called from its crescent
shape, is by far the largest, being 2,000 feet wide and 154 feet high;
the American Fall is 660 feet wide, and the Central Falls, 243 feet,
each having a fall of 163 feet. The two latter are separated from
each other and the former by Goat Island. The aggregate width
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FATHER HENNEPIN'S SKETCH OF THE FALLS.

is thus 2,900 feet and the water discharged is computed to be
1,000,000 tons per hour. Thanks to the energies of Lord Duffer
in,then Governor-General of Canada, and Governor Robinson of New
York, parks on either side have been opened up free to the public.
The Suspension Bridge which is crossed by the Southern (Great
Western) Division of the Grand Trunk is one of the engineering
triumphs of the age. It has a span of 1,230 feet from tower to
tower, and the floor is 256 feet above the water level. This bridge
was opened January 1, 1869; it is a two-storied structure, the up-
per story being used for the purposes of the Grand Trunk Railway,
and the bottom story for foot and passenger traffic.
There is no more graphic description of Niagara Falls than
that of Mr. Charles Dickens, who thus in his own characteristic
style says: " We were at the foot of the American Falls; I could

52 SUMMER RESORTS.

see an immense torrent of water tearing headlong down from some
imense height, but had no idea of shape or situation, or anything

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