| Show the hiie mystery if Ni masara apra the mystery attached to niagara falls and river river is s app apparently as im impenetrable a aa it t was in ia 1842 lb 12 when prof john hall ot of now new york projected ted the be first survey surrey of the river inc ibo e unknown increases in in interest int arest at the tha present time when aut an international effort is is being made to pro serve the tha approaches to the ile falls some of the remarkable facts known only oly to a few persons principally 1 en 00 ineer 1 may bo be told in in order to shed more or I 1 light g lit upon tin an old familiar ob eject j out in in lake ontario ontario a low few miles from the mouth ot of the river river are sev oral eral enormous enor moua shoals called callad the brickbats Brick bats They nare annually in creasing crabbe craB Bg III ia size size an and COm comaris comprise PrIs the dobrie debrie of the canyo nand tb abe wear of the falls Fr froat and tha the atmosphere are disintegrating agents far more mor 0 P powerful 0 w erful than the imalle cfall themselves the r h canyon is ia widin widening itiL every year E enormous Enor normous moua boulders bowl ders continually fall ono and plunging into the river are g ground to dust in in the current and it burned aw away a y to the shoals it is is ro mark abla that the rivers mars mouth dus does not become dammed wi with it this refuse those who think thick it I 1 imps no poll ible for niagara to contain t he wa ter that passes through the st bt law rence do not pause pansa to consider sev oral eral important facts the current carrent of niagara ranges from ten miles an hour to two mils miles a minute the vol nine of water sent hurrying to on tano at this terrific speed presents under the tha upper bridge a solid face of a cube yards square SO bo enormous enor moua is th the volume of water hurled burled through this passage that lake ontario must necessarily empty itself once in in ever every Y few days day just below the ahn lower ow r bridge the awe swells ila formed by the current rise rise to a height of twenty feet so BO is the abe pressure from above the maid 0 of f the mist passed through the can you yon ata at a rate 1 in a part exceeding one mile pr r minute the fattest time ever wa made per 0 by a tassel ressel those who coca consider ider it impossible for the st bt lawrence to be made by I 1 niagara river aro are right in in one respect the former stream receives receives vast accessions from american and canadian tribu triba maxies baries such as aa the interior chain of lakes tha drain drainage agi of the northern adirondacks and the ottawa river river the mysterious and avdul eptha of Nia garas CADY Oare fruitful sub bub ejects 1 ecta of comment some omi portions of it are reasonably supposed to be bot tOmIe 98 when the first railway bridge was waa constructed here some ambitious persons attempted to sound bound the canyon directly beneath it they filled a large tin pail with stones and lowered it with a rope The carrent I 1 merely played with it then than they tooka took a stronger cord attached a bar of railway iron iron to it which actus actually ily floated owing to a the fierce co counter 13 ter currents A tow few years ago theau abe uni ini tea led and I 1 as recorder of 0 the survey I 1 know of the remarkable data obtained we law stoico at once that the currents would buoy up a large sinker and proposed to test the smallest smalle Bt possible suir surface face with the tha greatest possible weight wo we took a lead weighton weigh tin form of a plumb bobi bob Weighing thirteen pounds and atts attached obed it to a small but strong ita co cord rd then we secured the services 0 ot f one ona of the ferry boata boatman and started out into the stream m the amtman boatman was ordered to row a aa s nearl nearly 11 under the falls as possible and t tb result will never be forgotten byad by a mom member their of the baity in that skiff As a we app approached roachel the falls the roar be cent came more and more terrible until we were wera not only cull unable to hear but the lips positively refused to open and utter atte r a sound for several days afterward some of the party were so deaf its as to be unable to bisti distinguish n aguish ono one word from another th the 6 load lead was cast first near the american falls where bottom was waa found at al eighty three feet feal near tho main fallada found feet of water here the oars mans strength fai failed lod and the litle craft began tol dart down t beam at every cast of the load lead the w uter tiler g grew ew deeper until in front of the in inclined ined railway theold guide and most of the party became terror stricken and refused to go further down stream ile here r 0 t be e I 1 lead a d told off foot feet we were then able to corn com pule the depths lower down by simply ascertaining the tha width of the stream directly under the lower bridge the water narrows considerably and deep ens to feet lower down at the whirlpool rapids the gorge becomes very narrow and the currents terribly fierce here the computed depth was feet uno one place in the gorge is still narrower and would elcee exceed gorle a depth of feet when the depth of water is taken into consideration he it height eight of the canyon walls walla a bove above he be surface must not be for forgotten these walls range from to SG ago d feet in height often that the total depth of the caryoll canyon ranges from to feet fed this frost great depth of 0 the gorge leads directly y I 1 in imagination to th the 0 canyons I 1 wear what absurd theories es and con lectures Jec tures have been put forth on this step up my g good 0 od biblical scholar and tell us how bow twenty cabio cabic mileson miles of solid rock have been worn out in years twenty cubic miles is many timea larger than man batten battan island it probably conta contains irta more material than is ia contained in long lone island including the brooklyn politicians there seems to be a cur rent impression that the falls recede toward buffalo at the rate of one foot a year the great geologist lyell lyall is ia I 1 responsible for or this stupendous error one foot a year tu alie the tb displace meat of 0 arbic feet of rok rock from tile the face of the falls annually sufficient to rebuild ull till the ort on broadway Uro adway the iho d io placement is IB really about halt half tin an I 1 luch it eh of 0 the face of tile the falls fallada at a whole in in evory live five centra it were wera unit that amount every year then niagara would nn nasally displace cubic feet of the fee baca 0 of 0 tho the falls falla which would ar rive rita in in buffalo in in the year and have been years yeara reaching each their present position no portion of the canyon excites unora more interest than the tha great mad strom atrom called the ibe whirlpool it is is sitti situated atel some omo die distance tance below the falls and is la lit little tie teJ okiu owing ir to the fact that guests are areil shown iown the whirl pool rapids directly below the lower bridge and think they have seen abo whirlpool rl poo its is surface covers terr territory I 1 or y abonita about a quarter of a mils mile square it its depths are enormous and unknown one no thousand feet of cord was found too short to reach its bottom dead bodies and marked logs require nine mine days to go to tho the bottom anti and return this great maelstrom has hag been a bug bear of speculation we a are re gravely told that through this whirlpool is i a ean outlet for t the waters of tha grout lakes one Ben tonce or one thought COS tDa to shatter hatter this spoon lation there could b be a no sue bubli I 1 I 1 gi gi garilio effect all of the water pour ing over the tha falls passes through that whirlpool it if it has an underground outlet where is is the gigantic gi antio spring which the mighty volume of waters I 1 no spring in in tho the earth is 19 larre large enough to undertake such a task one ona naturally asks the qu question s where the waters go which en ter hero bore they simply flow out and on through glathe the canyon the whirl pool asin the form of a large larg 0 circle the tha average force of et tho the volume ou me of water running through the canyon is is feet square this thi compact mass abba of water moves wi with t it infred ible entering tho the whirlpool 0 I 1 on one tide side spinning around 11 like 0 a top and constantly passing hatsing quit pub into t the 6 can canyon onto to rush madly on it its a wi own velocity velocity gives it a circular mo lion and aad the moving masses from behind create a tremendous pressure preB BUrs which forces the circulation to the bottom of the whirlpool the cause of of the whirlpool is easily accounted for at one time lime the tha lalla falls were here and during thou thoa sands bands of years yean excavated tho the great chasm known as the whirlpool while the be lalla and the ibe canyon walls are receding the bottom of the riveria river 13 being gra gradually duall worn ora way away so eo that in ia time it will lie far below it 0 low the bottom of lake ontario the bottom of ct the upper lakes is IB aar far le low that of lake ontario I 1 in some parts of tho the canyon rattlesnakes leann ekes are occasionally found ono one of thirteen rattles having baving been captured by the united statts engineers na ST timis dmn |
