Niagara Hotel and the unreliable stagecoach, article excerpt, transcribed (1833-09).jpg
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Niagara Hotel and the unreliable stagecoach, article excerpt, transcribed (1833-09).jpg
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THE FALLS OF NIAGARA.
EXTRACT TO THE EDITOR, DATED
Niagara Falls, Sept. —, 1833.
Having arrived at Tonawanda about 1 o’clock, on the morning of the 16th August, 1833, we left the packet boat, and set off for the Falls of Niagara, about 11 miles distant. We were undecided at first how to travel; a stage, it was said, would leave Tonawanda for the Falls, by which we were advised to go, as the best and most expeditious conveyance.—We accordingly roused the inmates of the Niagara Hotel, in order to ascertain at what hour the jumbling vehicle would start. We were informed that that depended on the number of passengers; but that if there was a load, the coach would leave the hotel at 8, A. M. Time being of importance, we determined to walk, so that by arriving at the Falls sooner, we might have more leisure, for the inspection of that interesting phenomenon.
We left Tonawanda between one and two o’clock. There is, I believe, nothing remarkable in this place, except that it was originally a settlement of the Senecas, and now a small village on the creek of that name, at which the Erie Canal issues, and where canal (not canailles) voyageurs, who wish to visit the Falls, leave the boats. Our road, a mere trackway, lay through a wood, and for some way along the Niagara Creek. The night was clear, cool, and moonlight; the wide waters on our left reflected her beams upon us so strongly, that the opposite wood appeared veiled in gloomy darkness. After a walk of six miles, we crossed the Cayuga creek, where our approach to the Falls was first indicated by the sound of a distant roar. The way was lonely, and
THE FALLS OF NIAGARA.
EXTRACT TO THE EDITOR, DATED
Niagara Falls, Sept. —, 1833.
Having arrived at Tonawanda about 1 o’clock, on the morning of the 16th August, 1833, we left the packet boat, and set off for the Falls of Niagara, about 11 miles distant. We were undecided at first how to travel; a stage, it was said, would leave Tonawanda for the Falls, by which we were advised to go, as the best and most expeditious conveyance.—We accordingly roused the inmates of the Niagara Hotel, in order to ascertain at what hour the jumbling vehicle would start. We were informed that that depended on the number of passengers; but that if there was a load, the coach would leave the hotel at 8, A. M. Time being of importance, we determined to walk, so that by arriving at the Falls sooner, we might have more leisure, for the inspection of that interesting phenomenon.
We left Tonawanda between one and two o’clock. There is, I believe, nothing remarkable in this place, except that it was originally a settlement of the Senecas, and now a small village on the creek of that name, at which the Erie Canal issues, and where canal (not canailles) voyageurs, who wish to visit the Falls, leave the boats. Our road, a mere trackway, lay through a wood, and for some way along the Niagara Creek. The night was clear, cool, and moonlight; the wide waters on our left reflected her beams upon us so strongly, that the opposite wood appeared veiled in gloomy darkness. After a walk of six miles, we crossed the Cayuga creek, where our approach to the Falls was first indicated by the sound of a distant roar. The way was lonely, and
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1833-09
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“Niagara Hotel and the unreliable stagecoach, article excerpt, transcribed (1833-09).jpg,” North Tonawanda History, accessed June 26, 2025, https://nthistory.com/items/show/4129.