Judge Porter--General Porter--Goat Island--Origin of its name--Early dates found cut in the bark of trees and in the rock--Professor Kalm's wonderful story--Bridges to the Island--Method of construction--Red Jacket--Anecdotes--Grand Island--Major Noah and the New Jerusalem--The Stone Tower--The Biddle stairs--Sam Patch--Depth of water on the Horseshoe--Ships sent over the Falls 71
Joel R. Robinson, the first and last navigator of the Rapids--Rescue of Chapin--Rescue of Allen--He takes the _Maid of the Mist_ through the Whirlpool--His companions--Effect upon Robinson--Biographical notice--His grave unmarked 85
A fisherman and a bear in a canoe--Frightful experience with floating ice--Early farming on the Niagara--Fruit-growing--The original forest--Testimony of the trees--The first hotel--General Whitney-- Cataract House--Distinguished visitors--Carriage road down the Canadian bank--Ontario House--Clifton House--The Museum--Table and Termination Rocks--Burning Spring--Lundy's Lane--Battle Anecdotes 96
Incidents--Fall of Table Rock--Remarkable phenomenon in the river-- Driving and lumbering on the Rapids--Points of the compass at the Falls--A first view of the Falls commonly disappointing--Lunar bow--Golden spray--Gull Island and the gulls--The highest water ever known at the Falls--The Hermit of the Falls 108
Avery's descent of the Falls--The fatal practical joke--Death of Miss Rugg--Swans--Eagles--Crows--Ducks over the Falls--Why dogs have survived the descent 118
Wedding tourists at the Falls--Bridges to the Moss Islands--Railway at the Ferry--List of persons who have been carried over the Falls-- Other accidents 125
The first Suspension Bridge--The Railway Suspension Bridge-- Extraordinary vibration given to the Railway Bridge by the fall of a mass of rock--De Veaux College--The Lewiston Suspension Bridge-- The Suspension Bridge at the Falls 137
Blondin and his "ascensions"--Visit of the Prince of Wales--Grand illumination of the Falls--The steamer _Caroline_--The Water-power of Niagara--Lord Dufferin and the plan of an international park 144
Poetry in the Table Rock albums--Poems by Colonel Porter, Willis G. Clark, Lord Morpeth, José Maria Heredia, A. S. Ridgely, Mrs. Sigourney, and J. G. C. Brainard 153