The First Visitor Behind The American Falls Of Niagara

From the Niágara Falls Gazette. We have heretofore refeTed to explorations that have been made behind tl. e Ainerican FaU, entering from behind Prospect Park. All descriptions represent the trip behind the great f til to be unrivaled tor weirdness of scène and novelty of experience. Fasoinatingr as is the cave under the Luna Island Pull, the explored mysteries of the wild and tuniultuous recesses behind the American Fall shadows the former interest, in the wouders of the oíd cave. Since the organizatiotr of the Prospect Park Oompany it has been contemplated fitting up approaches to this new cave, and building Huch mechanical helps as ir.ay be found practical to facilítate pleasure tripa bebind the sheet. Last Season Conroy and Munford made a thorough examination of the entrance, exteuding tlieir trip arouud the first bend in the precipice. The floor was found perfectly smuoth, with a sheet of comparatively still water some t.hree feat deep overlaying it. Since this trip last season the cavo has not been entered until recently, whtn Conroy and Munford volunteered to guide a stranger through the explored portions of the place. The stranger, Mr. George B. Johnson, of uew Orleans, thus bas won the distinction of being the first visitor to Niágara who has ever been behind the American Fall. The party pressed their investigation over 200 feet behind the sheet. Conroy expresses his conviction that a passageway extends through to Goat Island, - a path which can be treaded with safety, and which be intends at some future day to explore.