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WEBB. VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE 4 SISTER ISLAND. I I ^BB. OttAND TIGHT ROPE AS0KN8I0N NIAGARA FALLS. ~ BaiDGE TO BURNING 8PRIKG8 AND C CLARK HILL ISLANDS, 8IGN0UINA SPELTERINA IN HER HIGH HOPE SFOKMA^CE. '^^^''^^ "^'^^^^^^^ '^ ^«^ ^^«^- VIEW OF THE ICE MOUNTAIN AND WINTER SPORTS 1875. THE PARK. CAPT. WEBB'S FATAL SWIM. WINTER WONDERS OF 1875. ICE ARCH PROSPECT PARK THE CANTILEVEll BRIDGE. r NIAGARA FALLS AND VICINITY, INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION OF TORONToT TOR MO HARBOUR /»r, «^-, ISLAND OPPOSITE TORONTO WITH HOME OP EDWARD HANLAN THE CHAMPION SCULLER OP THE WORLD. TORONTO HAHBOUR WIlt^Afe 8(iiNk. ICE BOATING AT HANLim" LD. mfSa CUSTOM HOUSE srs. UNIVEBSITY, TORONTO. v¥ t Heigrh if water r»t«rpaa red and 1 j «v«rhangi MUSE CLAR SPRING. SAIL^ »ll»a bel t. B. of < «ad Carrii tiie water THE \ Uluw the it was in Whirlpool timely en< •f tkb kin Central an Dec. 20/lg H Cars of aboTe the Chasm 87i Aails are vers are ( feet high. LUNDTi les west o funght Jnl BROCK ^e Falls. I MEMOS 9f the Mil iJuie 15th jirawned Ji Mfht rope father Hei euritgei 1 Hb % eormp Muinf ,11 NIAGARA FALLS AND VICINITY. 6~ N CANADA-SIDE. PUees of interest. « HOSBE SHOE FALLS. Height 158 feet — width 2376 feet. Sheet f water in centre 20 feet thick. Amoant of rftier passing oyer ever j minute Thirteen hand- red and fifty million! of cubic feet TABLiS BOCK werhanga the caldron close to the Fall. MUSEUM a few feut from Table Rock. CLABEHILL ISLANDS AND BUBNINO SPBINQ. Half a jnile from Table Rock. BAIL WAY SUSPENSION BRIDGE. Two ftilea below the Falls built by Oreat- Western t. B. of Canada in 1855 is for both Bailway «ad Carriage use, 825 feet long, 200 feet above the water, depth of water underneath 250 feet. THE WHIRLPOOL (See view). 8V4 Miles Mow the Falls or */4 below the Snsp. Bridge- it was in trying to swim these Rapids and Whirlpool that Captain Webb came to an nn- timely end in 1883. "^WE CANTILEVER BRIDGE. The only one of titb kind in the world-built for the N. Y. Central and Michigan Central Railroads-opened Dec. 20/1883 and tested by 20 LocomotlTes and M Cars of Gravel. Its location i« about 300 feet •bore the old Susperoion Bridge-spanning a Chaam 870 feet betwoy the Bluffs and the Kails are 240 feet above \ j water. The To- wers are of steel 182 feet on Stone Piers 89 feet high. LUNDY'S LANE BATTLE GROUND IVt mi- lea west of the Falls. Battle of Londr'a Laae fought July 25th 1814. BROCK'S MONUMENT seven miles below ^e Falls. Erected in 1853. HeighV 186 feet. I MEMORANDA. Sam Patch's leap 1829. „Maid W the Mist" passed through the Wh rlpool VOae 15th 1861. Francis Abhot rth« he-n'^^ Swned June 1831, Blondin first crossed *on It rope 1869. The firrt white visitor - I father Hennepin in 1678. Bates of fare for j earriages IJW per hour. The name .Niagara* lis a eormption of the Indian word MOcyakara" ||Maiiin( .Mighty. wruderfU, thundering* water. AMERICAN-SIDE. AMERICAN FALLS. Height 164 feet. Width quarter of a a\-i mile — Amoout of water passing over every minute one hundred and fifty million cubic feet. GOAT ISLAND GROUP. Consisting of Goat Island. Bach Island. Luna Island. Terrapin Rocks. Three Sisters Island. Hermits Cascade. Cave of the winds. Biddlo-stairs &c. The Islands Contain over 60 acres and are Connected with the Main-land and each other by seven bridges. Goat Island is situated at the brink of the precipice and separates the American from the Canadian Falls. PROSPECT PARK. Contains about seven acres and situated at the edge of the Americah Falls : The prin- cipal features of the park are Prospect Point, Ferry House and inclined Railway. Shadow of the Bock. H rricane bridge. Ferry to Ca- nada. Electric ught and Art Gallery. NEW SUSPENSIGN BRIDGE. For Carriages and foot passengers about three fourths of a mile below the Falla-length 1268 feet and 100 feet above the water-depth of water underneath 160 feet WHIRLPOOL BAPIDS AND DOUBLE ELEVATOB. 2V4 miles below the Falls-width of Biver here only 800 feet and depth estimated 820 feet Fully fifteen hundred million Cubicfeet of water rush through this Gorge every Minute at the rate of nearly 30 miles an hour A double Elevator — Cost 20000 DoUars and worked by water power — conveys visitors from above to the water edge. DEVIL'S HOLE. Three and one half miles from Falls. INDIAN VILLAGE. Eight miles from Falls.