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DID CHARLES DICKENS EVER VISIT NIAGARA FALLS?
By GEORGE BAILEY
2009-12-24 13:23:32
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He sure did. Not only did he visit Niagara for 10 days in the winter of 1842 and he also wrote about Niagara.
Arriving first in Buffalo N.Y. he set off by an early morning train to see Niagara. When the train halted at Niagara Falls, N.Y. he descended to the bank below the American Falls and crossed the Niagara River by ferry with two English officers in a small ferryboat to the "British" side at Table Rock.
Dickens wrote,"It was not until I came on Table Rock and looked - Great Heaven, on what a fall of bright green water! -that it came upon me in its full might and majesty. Then when I felt how near to my Creator I was standing, the first effect,and enduring one-instant and lasting-of the tremendous spectacle,was peace.
Peace of mind,tranquility, calm recollections of the Dead, great thoughts of Eternal Rest and Happiness, nothing of gloom or terror. Niagara was at once stamped upon my heart,an Image of Beauty, to remain there,changeless and indelible,until its pulse cease to beat,forever".
I couldn't have said it better.
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wow,so cool information!i wish i can go these famous place when traveling!thanks a lot for sharing with so much useful information!
Art Klein
I think I read another piece by Dickens about Niagara Falls. I could be thinking about another English Author from that mid century period but it seems to me the article had a lot of descriptions of the general WNY area. I think it was part of some sort of travel notes collection. Sadly I think I read it as a research project when I was studying English lit over fifty years ago and I think my notes are long gone.
George
Art, I checked in Volume 1 of my Anthology and Bibliography of Niagara Falls by Charles Mason Dow( A GREAT NIAGARA RESOURCE PUBLICATION).reference is made in Dickens American Notes that he arribved in Buffalo in the morning and took the train to Niagara Falls, New York,whereupon he took the steep bank down to the bank below the falls and took, `the little-ferry boat` to the British side below the Horseshoe Fall.
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