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Title: The falls of Niagara
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Holley, George Washington, 1810-1897. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Waterfalls
Publisher: New-York, A. C. Armstrong & son
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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at the Falls — The Hermit of the Falls. OF incidents, curious, comic, and tragic, connectedwith the locahty the catalogue is long, but we mustmake our recital of them brief. We have before referred to Professor Kalms notice ofthe fall of a portion of Table Rock previous to 1750.Authentic accounts of like events are the following : In1818 a mass one hundred and sixty feet long by thirtywide; in 1828 and 29 two smaller masses; also in 1828there went down in the center of the Horseshoe a hugemass, of which the top area was estimated at half an acre.If this estimate was correct, it would show an abrasionequivalent to nearly one foot from the whole surface ofthe Canadian Fall. In April, 1843, a mass of rock andearth about thirty-five feet long and six feet wide fellfrom the middle of Goat Island. In 1847, jst north ofthe Biddle Stairs, there was a slide of bowlders, earth, andgravel, with a small portion of the bed-rock, the wholemass being about forty feet long and ten feet wide. About
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Opposite page 109. Fall of Table Kock. LOCAL HISTORY AND INCIDENTS. 109 every third return of spring has increased the abrasionat these two points. At the first-named point more thantwenty feet in width has disappeared, with the whole ofthe road crossing the island. From the latter point,near the Biddle Stairs, which was a favorite one for viewingthe Horseshoe Fall, the seats provided for visitors andthe trees which shaded them have fallen. On the 25th of June, 1850, occurred the great down-fall which reduced Table Rock to a narrow bench alongthe bank. The portion which fell was one immense solidrock two hundred feet long, sixty feet wide, and one hun-dred feet deep where it separated from the bank. Thenoise of the crash was heard like muffled thunder formiles around. Fortunately it fell at noonday, when butfew people were out, and no lives were lost. The driverof an omnibus, who had taken off his horses for theirmidday feed, and was washing his vehicle, felt the pre-liminary cracking

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