Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Annie [L. Muir]
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something about it you know that Mary said that the locomotive made a terrible fizzing well the falls make a terrible splash- ing the water in our lake would not last it half a second when Dan & I first saw them their enormous magnitude & grand- eur so stunned & overwhelmed us that we could not realize anything but when we had00352retired to the hills and returned several times we began more and more to see & feel that we indeed stood before the great Niagara the grandest sight in all the world Just in sight far away up is the calm blue Lake Erie farther down the waters become troubled and as they approach
Location
Meaford [Canada]
Date Original
[1864] Oct 23
Source
Original letter dimensions: 05.0 x 06.5 cm
Resource Identifier
muir01_0672-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 0672
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
Page 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle