Excerpt from The Niagara River The Niagara River was important in the Olden time to every mile Of territory drained by the waters that flowed through it. What an empire to hold in fee! Here lies more than one-half the fresh water Of the world - the solid contents being, according to Darby it would form a solid cubic column measuring nearly twenty-two miles on each Side. 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.