FALLS OF NIAGARA
CHAPTER X.
PARLEY DESCRIBES THE FALLS OF NIAGARA.
The river Niagara runs out of Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, and you may see the direction it takes if you look in the map of North America. You may likewise observe that Lake Erie is connected with three other vast Lakes, and as its level is lower than theirs, the whole of their waters pass through it into the Niagara.
Nearly half way between the Lakes Erie and Ontario, where the river is about three quarters of a mile wide, it tumbles over a precipice of 160 feet in height. I shall try to describe to you what I saw when I visited this place; but I am quite certain I shall not be able to do justice to the scene. You must form your conceptions of it rather from the bare facts I tell you respecting the mass of water and the height of the rocky ledge over which it falls.