From the Niagara Falls Review:
“When we were seated in the little ferry-boat, and were crossing the swollen river immediately before both cataracts, I began to feel what it was: But I was in a manner stunned, and unable to comprehend the vastness of the scene. It was not until I came on Table Rock, and looked – Great Heaven, on what a fall of bright-green water! – that it came upon me in its full might and majesty.”
– Charles Dickens, “American Notes,” 1842.
Travellers have been awed by the thundering cataracts since Father Louis Hennepin first clapped eyes on what many consider to be one of the world’s natural wonders more than three centuries ago.