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DESCRIPTIONS OF NIAGARA;

SELECTED FROM

VARIOUS TRAVELLERS;

WITH ORIGINAL ADDITIONS,

BY

WILLIAM BARHAM.

"One only object fill'd eye, ear, and thought." SOUTHEY'S MADOC.

GRAVESEND :

PUBLISHED BY THE COMPILER, 6, ELIZABETH PLACE,
TRAFALGAR ROAD, WROTHAM ROAD.

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PREFACE.

THE subject of this volume has so long attracted the interest and excited the admiration of the lovers of nature, that a formal preface seems almost unnecessary. I shall simply state the principal reason which has urged me to publish this book. It is this; that, although there are already before the public many descriptions of NIAGARA; yet (so far as I am aware) there is no work in which are collected the various descriptions, separately published by those who have visited this incomparable Cataract.

For the original suggestion of such a work, and indeed for many of the descriptions here presented,

I am indebted to a friend, who, though he has never visited the Falls, has collected a variety of extracts from the different describers of NIAGARA. The same friend has kindly enriched my volume with some verses of his own, which, I think, will be much admired by my readers, and which form one of the principle articles in the conclusion of the ensuing

pages,

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