“Great God, is this our certain doom,

And are we still secure?

Still walking downward to the tomb,

And yet prepared no more?”

CHAPTER XXIII.
ONCE MORE AT NIAGARA.

Flow on forever in thy glorious robe

Of terror and of beauty. God has set

His rainbow on thy forehead, and the clouds

Mantled around thy feet.—Mrs. Sigourney.

Ontario was sleeping in the sunshine when they crossed it on Monday morning.