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A 1678 DESCRIPTION OF THE FALLS
By GEORGE BAILEY
2010-07-13 15:51:56
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One of the first, if not the first, to write about Niagara Falls, Canada was a Recollect priest, Father Louis Hennepin who visited Niagara Falls as part of a French exploration in 1678. I though you might enjoy what he had to say.
“Four Leagues from Lake Frontenac (now Lake Ontario)there is an incredible Cataract or Waterfall, which has no equal. The Niagara river near this place is only the eight of a league wide, but it is very deep in places, and so rapid above the great fall, that it hurries down all the animals which try to cross it, without a single one being able to withstand its current. They plunge down a height of more than five hundred feet, and its fall is composed of two sheets of water and a cascade, with an island sloping down. In the middle these waters foam and boil in a fearful manner”.
Hennepin’s description of Niagara Falls is most likely correct, but his measurements were greatly exaggerated. Attached is the exaggerated sketch (the first in Niagara Falls history believed to ever have been drawn) of The Canadian Horseshoe Falls.
Travelling to Niagara Falls is a lot easier than it was in 1678 but the view is still spectacular.
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