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Goat Island which separates the stream
of the Niagara into the two channels which precipitate
the waters of Lake Erie into Lake Ontario is
one of the most beautiful and fantastic scenes in
the vicinity of the great Falls It is approached
from the American shore by means of slender
wooden bridges thrown across from rock to rock
There is an amazing rush of water between these
islets the force and sublimity of which may be
conceived but cannot be described. The island
itself is most beautifully romantic affording a
delightful shade under its tall and magnificent
trees as the traveller indulged in meditation
amid the noise of the thundering waters.

A number of human skeletons have
have been dug up on this Island within these
few years, the remains of Indians buried in
a former age, many more no doubt are still resting
in undisturbed respose There may they
rest 'till the Great Spirit calls them hence
There are many other beautiful Islands situated
among the rapids which might be connected
with Goat Island by bridges which would render
the present walks still more romantic.

After spending the whole of Sunday
in again viewing the Falls from every possible
point and station both above and below, we returned
to Stamford at seven o'clock the hour our kind
hostess had named for dinner we found an
invitation from the Officers of

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