NIAGARA DRY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2100, 16 November 1880, Page 3

NIAGARA DRY.

“ The Falls of Niagara were dry for a whole day,” said the Rev. Dr. T. B. Fuller, of Hamilton, Ontario, in a recent lecture. The accuracy of the statement was questioned, and now tbe clergyman publishes the sworn statement of several persons that they saw the phenomenon. They say that it occurred on Maron 31st, 184-3. At six o’clock in the morning so little water was dribbling over that a man and hi* daughter walked half way across from the Conadian shore near the edge of the precipice. The girl stuck a pole into tho crevice of tho rock, and left a handkerchief flying from the top. Not content, with this feat, they went halt a mile above the full and rode pact way across the bed of the river in a waggon. Others did similar things. The jagged rooks at the bottom of the falls below were f loosed. This strange condition lasted until nightfall, when the stream began rapidly to swell, and before morning was as large as usual. Dr. Fuller’s theory is as follows '“The winds had been blowing down Bake Erie, which ia only about 30ft deep, and rushing a great deal of water from it over the falls; ifc then suddenly changed, and blew this little water (comparatively speaking) up to tho western portion of the lake; at this juncture tbe ice on Lake Erie, which had been broken up by those high winds, got jammed in the river between Buffalo and the Canada side, and formed a dam, which kept hack tho waters of Lake Brie.”