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The Whirpool is a phenomenon of great
interest as seen even from the top of the bank; but to
have any adequate idea of its power and motion
you must descend to the waters edge where ebullition
of the turbulent waters whirling with
amazing velocity rises up in the middle circles
ten feet above the sides.

One is astonished to find that all the
drainage of the great upper Lakes; in the millions
of tons of water precipitated every hour over the
Falls of Niagara should be thus closely confined
within such narrow bounds a consideration
which goes much towards the opinion that there
exists deep cavernous hollows at the foot of the Falls
through which a large portion of the waters find
way by subterranean channels to the lower lake
and thus lessen the subsequent bulk and subsequent
agitation of the stream below.

This very Whirlpool indeed appears to be
formed by one of such cavernous hollows in the
bed of the Stream for on the waters reaching them
they are whirled round in circular eddies and
boil up with foam like a cauldron the waters of
the centre being elevated several feet above the
level of the edge. Trees and other large substances
that are drawn into it in their passage down the
stream are whirled around with the circular
motion of the water till they often stand on end
or upright, the upper portion half out of the water
and the lower perpendicular beneath it, till on a