Show DRAWN OVER FALLS great sacrifice of animal LIF alifi in niagara cataract bird birds especially are victim victims while geese duck ducks and quarrel qu irrel foxe foxes and an bears beare alo also meet death in the seething flood new now ork the niagara pitfall ir ar nan san trap as appropriately dubbed at present deservedly dl claim claims con alterable ald erable attention from the local ornithologists of that reelon region and their reports have always alays been read with avidity la in ornithological cir clee cles these observers aa as d other others more remote rue the fact of this al at molt most yearly sacrifice yet they eel feel heir their helplessness ith many bird birds and animals it his b is been an ever recurring phenomenon which has been noted more or less irregularly in the historical literature ot at this country thee these dozen or more burled buried notes from sources not always easily accas sible to all zoologists may be of enough cough port inert historical interest to wet rant their collection in one ono article albert flaxen bright right says in t lorest orest and stream the first arst and most extended account I 1 ie from a letter I 1 y peter kalm KRIM who ite september 2 1760 1750 that several cral ot at the I 1 rench gentlemen told me that hen birds come hying into this tog or of the all tall they fall tall down and perish in the water either because their wings heroine become wet or that the bolso of the all tall astonishes them and they know not where to go in the dark but others were of 0 opinion seldom or never any bird ris hifa there in that manof r be bauc as they all aree airee among the abundance abad ainoo ot at birds found dead deed below the lh alts falls thom ar aru oo 00 other sorts than such as live IT and swim frequently in the katr ar swans gee ducks water hens tvs t 1 and tho tb like and try vory oden iton great amt flocks flooks ot at them art ar so 99 going to dost destruction ruction li in this tu manner anner they swim in tho th river above law the ml fall and so are down lower and lowr by the water ater and nd as water fowl com commonly delight la in being 1 carried with the stream me here they indulge 1 in enjoying this pleasure ples are so long till t the 0 tue ot of aba tb water beco taos so gret groat that it Is me 0 o lor for theia them to rive but thy they are art drien down th prel vice pt and borsh p rh they are observed Ted hen ther draw lea the th tall tao i ea en beavor alth all their might to take and leave 1 ine water but cannot in the month months ot of september and october such abundant quantities of 0 dead mater fowl are found every rooming morning below the fall on the shore that the garrison of the fort for a long time live chiefly upon them the fowl they find also sev wl iral burta sorts of dead flan fish also der berrs and other animals which havn hayt trie I 1 to cross the water unter above the fall the larger ant ainia ire are generally found broken to pieces I 1 was as tol at oswego that in october or there bauts sach plenty of leathers athera te are to bo be fond to nd hero here below the falls that 4 man in a day a time can gather enough a 0 them tor for several beds which feathers ley tey said caino came off the th s birde birds killed at tah tall I 1 asked the I 1 rench if it this was true they told me they bid never seen uch such a thing but that it the feather feathers w vare ire picked off mhd tbd dead birds there might be such a quantity toward the close of the eighteenth century isaac neld eld jr made the following observations having reached the margin of the river ae e proceeded toward the tha great fall along the strand which tor for a considerable part ot at the way ay thither consists 0 at horizontal beds of limestone rok ro k cov coy red ered with gravel except indeed here great piles plies of stones have alien fallen froni from thy sides of the cliff these I 1 j horizontal beds of rock tock in tn some i places extend very far into the river forming points which break the force of the current and occasion strong idles eddies along particular parts of the shore here great numbers of at the bodies of fishes squirrels foxes and various oth r animal animals that unable to stem stern the current of the river above he the fulls have been carried down 1 I them and consequently killed are ached bp lp the shore Is likewise found strewed ed with and large piece of timber that hal hae 0 ben swept avay train rom the above the falte talk and carried down the prebi the ts is gen generally orally terribly battered shattered ami and he the cai easo of all the large a aniN wl particularly of large 90 fishes are found very much bruised A dreadful et ellel arose from too quantity of pai matter lying OD on the shore ohm and bird birds of at rey attracted by it arv ar alwag at a hov leg ing about the places those wim wild bar beat might have afta tat ax marked stten wabe rian lid a baet of hick adert chaton did vot tak cogal 1 saneo ve be 1 the ahk ihmud goat was ta tag place where MOW their gerits aft rles as well oa on account a of its su slon as its propinquity to the carcasses below aba falls some years ago a large deer tl er m wai as seen for two or three eek fading wading a short distance into the rap da from this island and retreating he ile had been drifted down from abo abolt vt and not knowing the bate safe passage to the shore be he no doubt was carried over the falls volley say says that he found at the bottom of tbt thi precipice he the carcasses of game deer and wild bears which the current bad had hurried down don the cataract on chett attempting to swim across the river above it il |