Niagara River and Falls From Lake Erie to Lake Ontario: A Series of One Hundred and Fifty-Three Original Etchings Etched on Copper (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Amos W. Sangster

9780331278910: Niagara River and Falls From Lake Erie to Lake Ontario: A Series of One Hundred and Fifty-Three Original Etchings Etched on Copper (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 033127891X ISBN 13: 9780331278910

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HE scenery of the low-lying belt of shore land that bounds the lower portion of Lake Erie where its rapidly descending waters, flowing between the visibly approaching shores of the United States and Canada, become the Strait, or River, of Niagara, makes no pretension to boldness or sublimity of feature, and has even been described as devoid of any picturesque interest or beauty; a reproach, however, that will scarcely be conceded. Indeed, many really charming effects can be pointed out in the prospect; many pleasing nooks discovered; groups of trees, concealing beneath their shadows the limpid waters of the coves and pools that indent the boulder - strewn shore; green patches of brush overhanging billow-washed beaches; sandy knolls and rocky dykes, against which the rippling surf of the Lake beats and splashes continually; tranquil and misty byways veiled in soft combinations of light and obscurity; the whole forming a con nected series of agreeable and harmonious pictures, stretching across the distant horizon, as seen from either bank of the broad and rapidly flowing River; embracing in its graceful sweep many objects and features of a local nature, that add essentially to the variety and picturesqueness of the general landscape.

With the pleasure inspired by the view of a wide expanse of water, lying in repose, there is always associated a placid and soothing sentiment of beauty peculiar to itself, and to which all minds are confessedly susceptible; broken and agitated water, irrespective of its surroundings, possesses, transcendently, a spirit - stirring charm, the influence of which no frank soul can resist.

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