Excerpt from Historical Facts and Thrilling Incidents of the Niagara Frontier This picturesque river extends from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, a distance of 36 miles, and through it passes all the waters of the great lakes of the west, including Lakes Superior, Michi gan, Huron, St. Clair and Erie, form ing the largest and finest body of fresh water in the world. It has a fall from Lake Erie to the falls of 68 feet on the American and 78 on the Canadian side. The American Fall is 160 feet high and the Canadian or Horse-shoe Fall is 150 feet in height. From the base of the falls to Lewiston, a distance of 7 miles, there is a fall of 104 feet; and from Lewiston to the mouth of the river at Lake Ontario, a distance of 7 miles more, there is a fall of 2 feet, making a fall of 334 feet from lake to lake. This river is dotted with numerous beautiful islands, 36 in all, the largest of which is Grand Island containing about acres of land. But the one which is of the most interest to the tourist is Goat Island, which divides the American from the Canadian or Horse-shoe Fall, and is now included in the State Reservation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.