Burke's Descriptive Guide: or the Visitors' Companion to Niagara Falls (1851)
Burke's
Descriptive Guide;
or, the
Visitors' Companion
to
Niagara Falls:
its
Strange and Wonderful Localities
By an Old Resident
Buffalo:
Andrew Burke,
Publisher, Bookseller and Stationer,
Mansion House Block
1851
- Cover (jpeg--217k)
- Table of Contents (jpeg--146 k)
- Title Page through Page 9 (pdf--393 k)
- Page 10 through Page 27 (pdf--702 k)
- Page 28 through Page 43 (pdf--816 k)
- Page 44 through Page 65 (pdf--794 k)
- Page 66 through Page 79 (pdf--508 k)
- Page 80 through Page 106 (pdf--1.1 mb)
- Page 107, Postscript--Fall of Table Rock (jpeg--247 k)
- Back Cover (jpeg--207 k)
Table of Contents
Introduction
page 2
The Journey
page 3
Tonawanda
page 8
City of Arrarat
page 10
Schlosser
page 12
Village of Niagara Falls
page 17
Steamboat Route to the Falls
page 19
The Islands
page 24
Navy Island
page 26
Chippewa
page 28
City of the Falls
page 31
Niagara
page 33
The Falls of Niagara
page37
Prospect Point
page 41
Bridge and Islands
page 44
Elopement Case at the Falls
page 46
Bath Island
page 51
Iris Island
page 53
Horse-shoe Fall
page 58
Biddle Stair-case
page 60
Cave of the Winds
page 63
American Sheet of Water---page 66
Moss Island
page 68
The Graves
page 71
The Canada Side
page 72
View from Table Rock
page 77
Scenes in the Vicinity of Niagara Falls
page 80
Bellvue
page 82
Suspension Bridge
page 83
The Whirlpool
page 86
The Massacre of Bloody Run
page 89
Accidents
page 92
White Canoes, a legend
page 101
Conclusion
page 105
Postscript--Fall of Table Rock
page 107