3-066-061 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"Picturesque America:" Cave of the Winds, Niagara Falls, 1881. 'One of the most attractive of the illustrated works of topography published in a series of monthly parts by Messrs. Cassell, Petter, Galpin, and Co., is devoted to the grand natural scenery of the Western Continent. The first four parts...contain very fine steel plates and wood engravings, from drawings by Mr. H. Fenn, Mr. R. Swain Gifford, and Mr. Granville Perkins...We have selected...[a view of] the famous "Cave of the Winds," on the American or United States' side of the Falls of Niagara, where you may walk 50 ft. or 60 ft. along a narrow ledge of rock, shut in by a sheet of down-rushing water, on the left hand, and with an overhanging mass of dark limestone rock, variegated with shining white spar, to the right hand. The violent currents of wind, caused by the agitation of the air from the falling waters, fill the ear with a ceaseless roar, in which there is nothing harsh, discordant, or inharmonious; but the sound is in harmony with the scene, and expressive of an overawing majesty'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.