WONDERS OF NIAGARA.
The wonders' of Niagara Falls were interestingly described in a lecture which Mr S. Irwin Crookes, of Auckland, delivered at the last meeting of the local branch of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers. Mr Crookes said the Horse Shoe section of the falls lias eaten itself backwards for a distance of 373011. since tlie time of Abraham Lincoln. According to geological estimates, Niagara Falls were formed about 39,000 years ago, and it was be’icvcd that they were then eight miles lower down the river. A French missionary was the first white man to discover Niagara. This was in the year 1664. and the first survey was made a century later by British engineers. In 1764 the present Horse Shoe curve was just starting. To-day it was approximately 3000 ft long. It had been stated by eminent authorities that unless the recession of the Horse .Shoe was stopped the beauty of that part would be entirely lost.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1929, Page 2
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161WONDERS OF NIAGARA. Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1929, Page 2
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