Niagara Falls and the Niagara River

THE FALLS

Colum[sic] of spray 1000 feet high, Niagara

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Falls of Niagara from Suspension Bridge

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Horseshoe Fall from below Canada side, Niagara

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American Falls from Canada, Niagara

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[American and Horseshoe Falls, Spring or Fall]

Pathway Leading Under Horseshoe Fall, Niagara

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Whirlwind Rapids, Niagara

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THE NIAGARA RIVER

The Ice Bridge, Niagara

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Niagara River above the Falls

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The Maid of the Mist in the Whirlpool Rapids Niagara

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Moonlight view of Horseshoe Falls, Niagara

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Niagara River from the Lewistown R.R.

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[Two men in a boat below the Falls, one rowing, the other shooting a rifle.]

Bird's eye view of the Horseshoe Fall, Niagara

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PEOPLE ON THE NIAGARA RIVER

[Henry Bellini, tightrope walker, prepares to cross the Falls]

[Henry Bellini, tightrope walker, prepares to fall into the waters below the Falls.]

Henry Bellini (1841-1888), a British daredevil came to Niagara Falls in 1873. That year at the age of 32 he crossed the Niagara Gorge using a 457-metre-long tightrope, the diameter of which was 6.4 cm. This feat was repeated three more times that year. Each time Bellini walked out to the middle of the Gorge with the aid of a 7-metre-long balance pole which weighted 22 kilograms and once in the middle of the Gorge he leaped off the rope landing in the river below where a boat waited to pick him up and take him to shore. In 1886 it is reported that Bellini jumped off the Upper Suspension Bridge into the wintery waters below. He was hauled out by those on the waiting boat, unconscious but still still alive and with numerous broken ribs.

Rapids above the Falls, Niagara

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Rapids Above the Falls, Niagara

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