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Day
26
Month
January
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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NOW IS THE TIME to vee Nitmra in all the beauty of lts winter garb, environed by marreloui and faututlc forma of Ice and suow. Gijfantlo nicles torin on the overhanjiing rocks und reach trom siunmit to base of the Uil preclplces. The Icebrldge generally exleml.s from llcirscshoe Fall to a point nc.ir t lic railroud bridge, lasts generally trom two tu threi' months, and is crooad by buiidreda ót toot passengere duriiiL tiie winter. ice formlng tLe bridge 1 ordinarily from one iumdrcd to one bundred and litty feet tliick - risini from tifty to sixty feet above tlie natural surfüOeofthe rlver. Tlie tlngv of the waters frora the dark green of sumuierj is sometimos changtd to yellow; the trees on Goat Islaud and Prospect Park, lie:itlied in a ulittering mail of ice. formed and added to ly the incessantly riilng spray, uem partlally boriod: mass of quuint and curious crygtalline fornis standing in lien of the bushes; the buildings seem to sink under ponderous coverings of snow añil ice: the tops of trees and pointsof rockoD which the daz.liug white Irost does not lic stand out In bold contrast, forming the deep shadows of the entraucinjt picture. The vh le present! a wild, savagc aspect, grand and ImpOiing beyond adequate description. It y ou can sec Niágara but once, it had better be In winter than in summer. The scène is one of peeriess grandeur, worth roinc hundred3Of miles to see, and daily excites the enthusiastic delight of the MicHiCrAN Central pasengers, who gaze enraptured upon it from the magnificent standpolntof Fallí View, above and altnost on the brink of the Horseshoe falls. From this point ays Peck's Sun, editorially, "the AIiciiioan Central gives its sciigei the ni(.st heautitul view to be seen on this eaith. There miy be more beaQtlfol views on some other earth, but tío r ulroal runs there yet." Chicago City Ticket Office, 67 Clark St. Cor. Randolpli. O. W. Rugoi.es, Gen'l Pass'r & Ticket Agt.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News