Niagara Falls

Canadian Horseshoe Falls with city of Niagara Falls, Ontario in background.

The Niagara Falls, located on the Niagara River draining Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, is the collective name for the Horseshoe Falls and the adjacent American Falls along with the comparatively small Bridal Veil Falls, which combined form the highest flow rate of any waterfalls in the world and has a vertical drop of more than 50 meters.

Quotes

• "Niagara! wonder of this western world,
  And half the world beside! hail, beauteous queen
  Of cataracts!" An angel who had been
  O'er heaven and earth, spoke thus, his bright wings furled,
  And knelt to Nature first, on this wild cliff unseen.
  • Maria Brooks, "To Niagara"; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 554.

• Fools-to-free-the-world, they go,
  Primeval hearts from Buffalo.
  Red cataracts of France to-day
  Awake, three thousand miles away,
  An echo of Niagara
  The cataract Niagara.
  • Vachel Lindsay, "Niagara"; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 554.

• Flow on, forever, in thy glorious robe
  Of terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on
  Unfathomed and resistless. God hath set
  His rainbow on thy forehead: and the cloud
  Mantled around thy feet. And He doth give
  Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him
  Eternally—bidding the lip of man
  Keep silence—and upon thine altar pour
  Incense of awe-struck praise.
  • Lydia Sigourney, "Niagara"; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 554.

External links

http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/peachey_james_4E.html https://www.buffalorising.com/2021/09/natural-niagara-falls/