TABLE ROCK, NIAGARA.
The last of what was to long known v the Table Bock at Niagara has now broken off and fallen into the giver. The mass weighed nearly sixty tons, and m to 1876 orer 4,000 names of visitors hai been car?ed upon it. The part which has fallen composed onlj half of th> * orjgftal rock, the rest haring Mien before. On Saturday, Ist January, 1829, a surface ; of the rock, supposed to be the sue of half an acre, forming the bed of Maiden Walk, broke loose, and was precipitated into the immense chasm below* The crash was heard fora distance of fiv* miles, and the effect in the immediate neighbor* hood resembled the shook of an earth* quake. The water running under,the bank is supposed to hare caused the last fall, and the shock when the rook struck the water was distinctly felt* three miles from the fall. Several of the trees which stood on the rock are now seen standing in the river, as erect as when in. their original' places op th^e rbpk. W-here,the. rock shelved off from the bank, at a distance of twenty feet from the top, can be seen the root of a tree, estimated to be two feet in diameter. It attracts considerable attention. , . ....
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2867, 24 April 1878, Page 2
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214TABLE ROCK, NIAGARA. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2867, 24 April 1878, Page 2
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