The beauty of this scene varies yearly, for the wind and weather have all to do with the magnitude of the formations. When the weather is exceedingly cold the ice mountain, between the American Fall and the Inclined Railway, attains a magnificent height. The ice also forms from shore to shore, enabling people to pass at will to the Canadian side, and forming what is popularly called the ice bridge.
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OBSERVATION TOWER VIEW OF GOAT ISLAND AND RAPIDS.
This view shows “the dividing of the waters” of Niagara River, and in the immediate front the American Rapids are seen flowing tumultuously onward towards the towering cataract. Far across beyond Goat Island are the Canadian Rapids. The greater grandeurs and immense boundaries of which are best seen from Victoria Park on the Canadian side.
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BRINK OF THE AMERICAN FALL.
Probably there is no one sight which impresses itself more strongly upon the great majority of beholders than this view of the brink of the American Fall. Such mighty on-rushing torrents, so powerful, yet so smoothly and alluringly moving on over the precipice, and so near is the visitor to what seems an abyss of destruction that the scene is never forgotten.
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