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Hulett, Thomas G.

 
9781330798997: Every Man His Own Guide to the Falls of Niagara (Classic Reprint): Or the Whole Story in a Few Words: Or the Whole Story in a Few Words (Classic Reprint)

Sinopsis

Explore Niagara Falls through a blend of travel observation and early geology, revealing how the landscape has changed over time and why the falls recede.

This nonfiction work pairs vivid field notes with questions about rock layers, ancient water levels, and the forces shaping the Niagara frontier. It threads practical observations with ideas on how limestone, sand, and fresh-water deposits record a long, shifting history of the river and its cataract. The account touches on discoveries like fresh-water shells and a Mastodon fossil, offering a glimpse into how scientists of the period read the land.

  • Learn how erosion and rock strata influence the falls’ height and position over time.
  • See how researchers interpret fossil and shell finds to piece together past landscapes.
  • Discover the idea of a lake-like paleo‑environment that once held back waters at the rapids.
  • Understand the reasoning behind imagining future changes to the Niagara region.

Ideal for readers curious about the natural history of Niagara and the early attempts to explain its changing scenery.

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Excerpt from Every Man His Own Guide to the Falls of Niagara: Or the Whole Story in a Few Words

The author offers the following sheet, as a correct, comprehensive, and very much abridged work on the rambles around the Falls, a work that gives every necessary information to the visitor, without reading a volume of two hundred pages to obtain it. The great objection to the books heretofore published as Guides to the Falls is, first, the expense; second, superfluity of style; third, by directing visitors to a starting point, (for instance Point View) and notwithstanding all the books contain, it requires a living guide to inform them where Point View is situated. This work takes the visitor from the hotel, leads him to all the points of interest at the Falls on both sides of the river, and returns with him to his hotel. The author, to insure the visitor against any mistake in the different points to which this work will lead him, has been at the trouble of placing guide boards at the different points, with numbers upon them, which this work will explain so that the visitor cannot possibly be led astray.

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