Travels in the United States, etc.,: during 1849 and 1850./ By the Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley.

HORSE SHOE FALL.
Between Luna Island and the shore, with a comparatively shallow stream, the descent of the Fall is said to be greater by several
feet than at the Horse-shoe Fall. An ingeniously constructed
bridge connects Goat Island with the shore, from whence you
have an excellent view of the rapids; indeed the bridge crosses
the American branch of the river in the midst of them. You
look on your right hand, and there is the roaring American Fall,
almost close to you.
Goat Island is a gem of beauty, and its lovely foliage and bowery walks seem to charm away a little of the overpowering awfulness from its tremendous neighbor. It is said that if, as is supposed, the cataract has backed all the way from Queenstown, it
must have taken about forty thousand years for it to recede to its
present situation.
The quantity of water precipitated over the Falls is estimated
by Professor Dwight to be 11,524,375 tons per hour.; by Darby
at 1,672,704,000 cubic feet per hour, and by Piekens at 113,510,
000, or 18,524,000 cubic feet a minute.
Among the islands which diversify the surface of the Niagara
River, is Grand Island, which contains 18,000 acres of good and
fertile soil, covered with rich forests. Navy Island is another, and
it terminates in a beautiful point about a mile and a half above
the Fall.
CHAPTER I V.
Port Talbot-Canadian Carriages-Vast Extent of American Woods-The
Hotel at Port Stanley-Lake Erie-Mr. A- and his Family-Col.
Talbot, the " Last of the Mohicans" Instance of the Memory of North
American Indians-Another Story of the same Kind-A Recurrence to
Niagara-A second Thunder-storm-American Forests-Lake Erie by
Sunset-The Maple and the Sugar made from it-Coldness of Canadian
Winters.
WE arrived at Port Talbot, Canada West, a day or two ago
from Niagara, where we staid a fortnight. This is a delightful
place. WVe went back to Buffalo, then crossed a part of Lake
Erie (we were a day and a night on board the steamer "London"),
and, landing at Port Stanley, we had some refreshments at the
little hotel there, where we were well taken care of, by the partic
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