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Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s illustrated guide to Niagra Falls ; with maps and diagrams
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Rand McNally and Company
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Publisher: Chicago : Rand, McNally & Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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pose of suspendingbridges to act as connecting links between the two countries whichthe river seems solely intended to separate; and across them theiron horse deliberately conveys the products of human industryto and from each land! There is no point on the earths surface from which an entireidea of human existence can be more adequately conceived thanfrom the centre of the Railroad Suspension Bridge, which in thedistance appears as a mere web between the two cliffs, althoughsolid and substantial as mans ingenuity can make it. There, sus-pended in mid-air, between precipices enclosing a terrifying chasm,through which rushes the mighty flood, it is impossible to standwithout experiencing that feeling of enthusiasm connected withthe assumption that the creation contains no power too great forhuman control. Yet, when the heavily laden freight trains causethe fabric to tremble, the possibility of the breaking of the bridgeseems so near, and total destruction in that event so certain, that
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NIAGARA FALLS. a the feeling of exultation is necessarily allied with that of fear, re-calling the idea of standing face to face with eternity. This,briefly and tersely, is the locale of Niagara, which is at once a vil-lage and a city, for the reason that it contains such grand andinteresting scenery, as well as splendid manufacturing establish-ments and triumphs of human skill, although it has not more than4,000 inhabitants. A proposition has sometimes been made to convert this placeinto a park, to the exclusion of manufactories. It is probable,however, that the various industries of the future will be able todraw all the power required from the river above the Falls, with-out in any way marring the scenery of the latter; and that, whilein the years to come this village may grow to be a city, teemingwith life and activity, its value as a health resort will be in nowise abated. HE HAME Hiagai^a. The word Niagara is a household word all over the world. Itis applied only to th

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