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Show n NIAGARA'S VOICES. Tbey Ara Not Ilomblln nr ItapM. bat I'lanscnt aud Hlltaey. Niagara has many voices, and aom of them ore thus described by Mr. van Hcnsselaer In the Century "And the noise of Niagara Alarmlns; thing have been said about It, but they are not true It 1 a great and mighty noise, but It I not, as Hennepin Henne-pin thought an 'outrageous noise' It Is not a roar It does not drown tho tolce or stun the ears. Kvcn at the actual foot of Ihe fall It Is not oppressive. op-pressive. It Is much less rough than tho sound of heavy surf steadier, more homogeneous, leas metallic, very deep and strong, yt mellow and soft: soft, I mean, In Ita quality Aa to the noise of the rapids, there I none mora musical It Is neither rumbling nor f sharp It la clear, plangent, slltery. It Is so like the voice of n sleep brook much magnified, but not made coarser or more harsh that, after wc l.av known It, each liquid rail from n forest for-est hillside will seem, like tho odor of grapevine, a greeting from Niagara. It la an Inspiriting, an exhilarating sound, like freshness, coolness, vitality Itself made audible And )ct It Is a lulling sound. When we have looked out upon the American rapids for many days. It la hard to remember contented con-tented life amid motionless surround-Inra. surround-Inra. and so. when wo havo slept beside be-side them for many nights. It Is hard to think of hnpp) alccp In an empty silence Still another kind of music Is audible, at Niagara It must be listened list-ened for on quiet nights, but then It will 1)0 heard It Is like the tolco ot nn orchestra so tery far away that Its notes nro attenuated to an Incredible delicacy nnd nre Intermittently perceived, per-ceived, a though wnfted upon variable varia-ble zephrs It Is the most subtile, th ' most mysterious music In the world What Is lis origin? Why should w ntk Bitch fairy-like sounds ought not to bo explained Their appeal Is to the Imagination only. They are so faint, so far nv.a, that they almost escape the ear, as tho lunar bow and the fluted tints ot th American falls almost escape the cie. And jet wo need not fear to loio them, for they are ns real as tho deep bass of tho cataracts." |