But There
Are Edifices Of This Description Which Cry Aloud To The Gods By The
Force Of Their Own Ugliness And Malposition.
As to such, it may be
said that there should somewhere exist a power capable of crushing
them in their birth.
This new obelisk, or picture-building at
Niagara, is one of such.
And now we will cross the water, and with this object will return
by the bridge out of Goat Island, on the main land of the American
side. But as we do so, let me say that one of the great charms of
Niagara consists in this: that over and above that one great object
of wonder and beauty, there is so much little loveliness -
loveliness especially of water I mean. There are little rivulets
running here and there over little falls, with pendent boughs above
them, and stones shining under their shallow depths. As the
visitor stands and looks through the trees, the rapids glitter
before him, and then hide themselves behind islands. They glitter
and sparkle in far distances under the bright foliage, till the
remembrance is lost, and one knows not which way they run. And
then the river below, with its whirlpool, - but we shall come to
that by-and-by, and to the mad voyage which was made down the
rapids by that mad captain who ran the gantlet of the waters at the
risk of his own life, with fifty to one against him, in order that
he might save another man's property from the sheriff.
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