SHOOTING NIAGARA RAPIDS
Some boatmen have undertaken to shoot the rapids at Niagara next summer. One of the adventurers says : — "I do not think it dangerous. The boat will have plenty of beam, a grating for a floor, and no bottom. If we fill with water we can't sink, because we will have air tight compartments around the boat, and the water we take in will quicky disappear through the grating. If anything should happen we are both good swimmers, aud would make a grand struggle before going under. It will be money in our pockets if we succeed, and if we fail our wives and children will get the benefit of it. There is positively less danger in trying to row through the rapids than there is going out on the frontier for £2 15s a month and all found, and we get £500 for what we are going to do. One point about it is that we row with our faces towards the danger instead of rowing in the ordinary way. We were both up at Niagara Falls a week ago, and made our calculations and measurements of distances."
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Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1757, 11 June 1886, Page 5
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191SHOOTING NIAGARA RAPIDS Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1757, 11 June 1886, Page 5
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