The Great Mountain Frozen Below Ice-Bound American Niagara Falls Stereoview For Sale

Winter cannot silence Niagara, but it does work other marvels, as we find when we come down here to the foot of the American Falls. How far we have descended we might guess from the apparent size of those people standing up there on the ice-coated cliffs of Prospect Point, just at the edge of the falls. They are fully 170 feet above our heads now! This gigantic mound before us, cutting off our view of the foot of the falls, is a new-formed special addition to the ice terrace – the accumulation of frozen spray snow that took its flight upward, not downward before falling to earth under the shelter of the cliffs! That last ice-draped precipice beyond the American Falls (to the right if we face from here) is a corner of Goat Island. If we were to turn east and face to the right, we should see the stupendous gulf of the Horseshoe Falls with the Canadian shore beyond.

We human creatures do look absurdly small – no more than ants – in the face of such might. The American mind is ambitious. Those men and women in whom he is reverently conscious of his powers and destiny, stand in bridges and tunnels and on the railways – works of their hands – and think of man’s kind in undertaking this or that mighty venture. The thousand men who made the actual working power of these Falls is one of the most significant achievements of the century – wonderful! It does remain devoutly to be hoped that those responsible for the great undertaking will get the wider insight into the value of beauty and refrain from vulgarizing the solemn splendor of the place with needless ugliness.

See – The Niagara Book, by Mark Twain, W. D. Howells and others.

Condition:
Very good vintage condition. Slight edge wear consistent with age. Image and text remain clear and legible. No major bends or stains visible.

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