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? ? ? ? The weather is cool in summer, and the walks and drives are all pleasant and none of them fatiguing. When you start out to "do" the Falls you first drive down about a mile, and pay a small sum for the privilege of looking down from a precipice into the narrowest part of the Niagara river. A rail way "cut" through a hill would be as comely if it had the angry river tumbling and foaming through its bottom. You can descend a staircase here a hundred and fifty feet down, and stand at the edge of the water. After you have done it, you will wonder why you did it; but you will then be too late.
? ? ? ? The guide will explain to you, in his blood curdling way, how he saw the little steamer, Maid of the Mist, descend the fearful rapids-- how first one paddle-box was out of sight behind the raging billows and then the other, and at what point it was that her smokestack toppled overboard, and where her planking began to break and part asunder- and how she did finally live through the trip, after accomplishing the incredible feat of traveling seven teen miles in six minutes, or six miles in seventeen minutes, I have really forgotten which.
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