Show tho the mystery of niagara the mystery attached to niagara F falls alls and river Is apparently as im aai penetrable as is it was in 1842 when prof jolin john hall of new york projected tile alic first survey of the alic river rile ilie unknown increases in interest at he aie present time when on an In internal terna effort is being made to preserve berye the the hie falls sot alof the remarkable facts known only to a few persons pel sons principally en engineers I 1 fincers may be told in order to shed more light 0 upon oil an old and fa t out in ili L lake ac ontario a fe few miles fr from tile alic mouth of tile river nrc are several enormous shoals called the J they ajo anro annually increasing crea I 1 1 aw I 1 in size lize ond comprise ilia deb ri s of the canyon and tile wear of 0 tile falls frost and liu lite atmosphere arii ri disintegrating disinter dis integ kati katin n K bentse far more a ful th than tri th the e fills theria themselves selves the caul cannon on is im widening every year enormous boulders continually fall aud and plunging into alio are arc ground 18 dust in tho lie currents and hurried away to tile the shoals it is remarkable that life rivers mouth does not noli become d anklin edwith with this refuse those e iao think it impossible for niagara amara 25 to contain the lite water that 11 through fough 1 the ile st 81 lawrence to do no not pause 10 lo important fa facts ctr the current 0 of f N niagara in 0 ara ranges from tell miles an all hour to to tio miles a 1 I ruin minute tite the volume of water sent hurrying hur to ontario at this terrific speed presents presents under tinder ilia upper tipper bridge a solid face of a cube ag yar yards Is square so enormous is the ilia volume of water hurled through this passa passage a that lake ontario in must st necessarily cessa rily empty itself once in every fi few w days just below ahe lower brid bridge 1 c tile swe swells alls formed liy by the llie current rise to a lit of ae twenty lity feet so terrific is the pressure front froin alo e tim tile of ill llie mist alist passed through tile the canyon it at a r rate ale ill ili part exceeding one roi liper minute ilia fastest time over made by a essel those who consider it impossible for tile st Law lawrence renco to bo be made by niagara river are arc right in one respect the 1 he former stream stream receives vast accessions from Ameri american cati and canadian tribu marics such as tile the interior chain of fakes akes the drainage f of tho northern and the ottawa river ul et and avital aw fill depths of Nia Nii garas canyon are arc fruitful subjects of comment some portions of it are reasonably supposed to be bottomless tom less when the first railway bridge was constructed hero here some come ambitious ambition s persons attempted to sound tile the canyon directly beneath it they file filled si margetin larg etin pail ith stones md and lowered it with a rope the currents mcdrew played with ita t then they took a stronger cord attached a bar of railway iron to it actually floa floated tedi owl owing 7 to the ficile counter currents afew A few years noo ago tile the united states stales take lake came here and andas gs recorder of lite survey the remarkable ditta dala obtained we saw lit at once that the currents would buoy uy a large C sinker er and proposed to test lest the smallest possible surface with tile the greatest possible ible weight we wilk took a lead weight in ili form of a plum bob h ing ng thirteen pounds and altai lied it to 0 o a small but strong cord then we secured the ser services vica of one olle of tile ferry ciry boatmen boi and started out otil into tile stream the boatman was ordered to low as neaily under tile falls alls as possible and the resul lull never bu forgotten by a member of llie lie party parly in that skiff As we ive approached pro ached the ilia f ills falls the roar I 1 became inore lull and wore more terrible un until uni I we ut were not only unable anabe to afir but tile the lip lips refused refuse to c open ell and titter a bound tiou nill for ii everal flays days afterward drw AM bottle of the party p ioni 0 ili fo 1 to le afas s to be unable to distinguish one word from another llie ilia lead was cast first lisl near the american fills falls alicie bottom was found at eighty 0 three feet near ilia mail falls fails we ire found feet of water ifera the alto oars mans strength failed and ami the littlon craft began bodart to dart down downstream st at every cast of the lead the water grew grew deeper until in if front of the lite in inclined c rained rail railway way tile the old guide slid and most of the ilia party bee became line terror error stricken lull ind refused to 0 o go further down str stream earn licie tile load told off au feet we lye were viere then allo able to compute the ilia cepelis ilc loner down dowid by simply ascer ascertaining laining 0 tile ot the under the loner bridge thu the inter narrow onside i ably anil deepens to feet t lower do down it at it the whirlpool rapids the llie api gorge ebe becomes coules try cry narrow A and nd the uric lits fierce abere lite computed depth nis feet feel ono alive in ili the gorge f is still narrower and would mould exceed a depth of feet tile of tile unter Js is taken into hito consideration lite height of tile llie walls abo aboc P the surface must not be for altor these walls ran franb from to feet iu liLi glit often perpendicular so that the t total otal depth of tile enliven 11 ran ranges ranes es front froin to feet tins this ora great drilli of the doige leads dir directly t in imag aou i to lo tin tile cany canyon oll year pear what the theodies olies atti conjectures have if iriki put fo forelli r til on oft this aliis sul step up my 0 good biblical st scholar holar suit and tell us u how cubic miles of solid rock aire likic licen worn out in mars cars twenty cubic miles is ninny limes bitnes larger t than island it probably contains moro more material ma lenil tl 11 rn an is vou run guined bained in it loti long g island 0 ilia brooklyn politicians there seems to ile 10 a current impression that tile llie falls recede toward buffalo at the rate of one loot foot a 3 ear car ille great geologist 13 lall ell is responsible for this stupendous error unc one foot 1 a I year means lite displacement of cubic feet of rock from the face of ilie f falli AIN annually to rebuild all llie ilia structures on oil broadway tile the displacement is really about halt half an all of tile alc of lila falla as a 1 vi whole bole in every five cars Suppo Sup poe ic it I 1 were ere that allol ill every year then thell N niagara 1 A ga ra wor would annually displace cubic feel of ili ile face of lite f fall A its chich would arric in in ill till the year 31 and have tie bucit ell I 1 years reaching their present position no portion of thil llie eana oil excites more interest than llian the ecat great called llie life whirlpool it 1 l ii situated ciomo jow the fulls falls and is i little owing to lo tile filet fact that guests are shown tile whirlpool rapids below aliu lovler loer bridge ge aud and iciak they have I 1 F see teen I 1 n the whirlpool I 1 its sur fi I 1 couii covey r territory about ol of a mile 4 square its depths are arc benir enar mou s and nil known one tie thou sat d feet feel of cord was found too short to reach its bottom dead bodies aid marked marked lo 10 log v i reci require alre nine go to the bottom ind and return this maelstrom it lias ns been a bugl bugbear hear of at speculation we lva are gravely wd uld that thron through I 1 lethis this whirl whirlpool pAl is it subterranean outlet for tho the waters of die I 1 gjent likes lakes one sentence OF or cic thought suffices to shatter alis sp pj ula ul atlon could bono beno such i gallad I 1 willa caus c without gigantic t all of tile veater pouring Pou rint over I 1 dit ie falls passco throniall liall 0 ti alic a hirl I 1 1 it it lias has in an underground tind or outlet where vv ph cir a n I 1 tb e Iga sparing spring hiah t the c in mighty wiy volume of waters no spring in the earth is large enough to undertake such a lask one naturally risks tile tion where via he waters go which enter cuter here aliey simply how out and of oil through the cantoni tile whirlpool is in uie ilia forin of a large circle the average averige force of the volume of water running albrough to lite hie ahyou anon is ia feet square this compart coin massol massios water moves with incredible swiftness clit eling tile the whirlpool on one sid wound like a top anil contently cont 11 antly p passing out ot into to the a c canyon ann jo it to kwoi biily madly on its own own velocity velocity ity gitis it il ii a circular botio ii and tile moving from eli ehin elihia hii create arc ate it i tremendous pressure which forces the llie circulation to lite bottom of if 11 alic to whirlpool hirl pool the cause of inc existence of tho ilia whirlpool it aj eastly accounted for at one little like falls alls acre ere here and during dur iii thousands of 0 years excavated lite grout gren 1 chasm known as the whirlpool while tile the falla lilt anti ami the canyon wall ire arc receding tile the bottom of the river is being behin g gojii I 1 lf itally illy worn away so billat illat ali it in ill tilli kiino 0 ft jt will ill A liu far tie bottom of 0 irio tile TIC bottom of the upper takes lakes is far below belon that of lalio lake ontario in ili comb parts part or of tile can f in yon are arc occasionally found outi one of thirteen rattles haalon been captured by the llie united slat states as engin engineers 0 cers N 2 i 3 |