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especially, being anxious to ascertain the reality of my supposed discovery, I got my servant to assist me, about eight o’clock, in casting all the loose stones we could find into the spring. We had not ceased five minutes, when the wished-⟨for⟩ phenomena recommenced, and the jets were carried to a height little inferior to what they had gained the preceding evening. At half-past nine, I was obliged to set out on my journey; but often looked back on the thundering column of steam, and reflected with amazement at my having given such an impulse to a body which no power on earth could controul
The Falls of Niagara.
“I had already seen some of the most celebrated works of nature in different parts of the globe; I had seen Etna and Vesuvius; I had seen the Andes almost at their greatest elevation; Cape Horn, rugged and bleak, buffetted by the southern tempest; and, though last not least, I have seen the long swell of the Pacific; but nothing I had ever beheld or imagined, could ⟨compare⟩ in grandeur with the Falls of Niagara. My first sensation was that of exquisite delight at having before me the greatest wonder of the world. Strange as it may appear, this feeling was immediately succeeded by an irresistable melancholy. Had this not continued, it might
