This Garden Has Spacious Lawns
Lighted By Lamps; And Here, As In The 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' The
Visitors Dance On Summer Evenings To The Strains Of Invisible Music.
But
at the time of my second visit to the Falls all the gaiety was over; the
men of
Business had returned to the cities, the southerners had fled to
their sunny homes - part of the house was shut up, and in the great dining-
room, with tables for three hundred, we sat down to lunch with about
twenty-five persons, most of them Americans and Germans of the most
repulsive description. After this meal, eaten in the "five minutes all
aboard" style, we started on a sight-seeing expedition. Instead of being
allowed to sit quietly on Table Rock, gazing upon the cataract, the
visitor, yielding to the demands of a supposed necessity, is dragged a
weary round - he must see the Falls from the front, from above, and from
below; he must go behind them, and be drenched by them; he must descend
spiral staircases at the risk of his limbs, and cross ferries at that of
his life; he must visit Bloody Run, the Burning Springs, and Indian
curiosity-shops, which have nothing to do with them at all; and when the
poor wretch is thoroughly bewildered and wearied by "doing Niagara," he is
allowed to steal quietly off to what he really came to see - the mighty
Horse-shoe Fall, with all its accompaniments of majesty, sublimity, and
terror.
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