2-995-971 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The American Falls, Niagara - from a photograph by the Stereoscopic Company, 1860. 'Every spectator, every child, is struck with the singular deliberation, the unnatural slowness, with which the waters of Niagara take their plunge. The laws of gravitation seem suspended, and the sublimity of the tremendous gulf below seems to check the descending victim on the verge, as if it paused in awe. The best way to approach Niagara is to go up on the American shore and cross at the ferry. The descent of about two hundred feet by the staircase brings the traveller directly under the shoulder and edge of the American Fall - the most imposing scene, for a single object, that he will ever have witnessed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1860.