Dramatic Moments.

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 91, 11 January 1935, Page 7

Dramatic Moments.

THE FIRST WHITE MAN SEES NIAGARA The Naigara Falls are between 160 and 170 feet high. The erest of the American Falls is 1000 feet long, the crest of the Horseshoe Falls 3000 feet long. The normal flow of the river at these points is over 90 million gallons a minute. It was in 1679 that the lirst European made the momentous discovery of the falls which to-day send light and power and heat to hundreds of cities in America and Canada. He was a

- Frenchman, a sturdy “Recollect” missionary. See him, brave I’cre Louis Hennepin, a soldier of the Cross, an explorer for the King of France, as lie pushes his way farther westward from the Atlantic seaboard. A thousand dangers are about him, the unknown before him, but lie advances steadily. The Indians are on every side, but this tine Frenchman has no fear, and so he comes to the broad waters of lake Ontario and is amazed at tneir vastness. Then, one day, he travels through a wilderness where no white man has ever set foot, and he hears a sound like thunder. It is constant. It grows in volume as he goes forward It is a deep roar, savage, almost teriible. It suggests immense power, unconquerable might. It draws him on. It is irresistible. Nearer and nearer be comes, till, at the last, he broke through the trees and brushed aside the branches, and stood still. He flung up his arms. He was looking—for the first time —on one of the mightiest spectacles’ of the New World; he, the first man from the Old.