"Niagara River" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the new fort which the government is erecting on the lake, a little to the north of the town, commanding the entrance of Niagara river. It is small, but of wonderful apparent strength, with walls of prodigious thickness, and so sturdy in its defences that it seemed to me one might as well think of cannonading the cliffs of Weehawken. It is curious to see how, as we grow more ingenious in the means of attack, we devise more effectual ...
— Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America • William Cullen Bryant |
