TABLE ROCK, NIAGARA.
The last of what was so long known as the Table Kock, at Niagara has now broken off •and fallen into the river. The mass weighed nearly sixty tons, and up to 1579 over 4,000 names of visitors had been carved upon it. The part that has fallen composed only onehalf of the original rock, the rest having fallen before. On Saturday, Ist January, 1829, a surface of the rock, supposed to be the size of half an acre, forming the bed of Maiden Walk, broke loose, and was precipitated into the chasm below. The crash was heard for a distance of five miles and the •effect in the immediate neighborhood resembled the shock of an earthquake. The water running under the bank is supposed to have caused the last fall, and the shock when •the rock struck the water was distinctly felt three miles from the fall. Several of the trees which stood on the rock are now seen standing in the river, as erect as when in their original places on the rock. Where the rock shelved off from the bank, at a distance of twenty feet from the top,can be seen the root of a tree, estimated to be two feet iu 'diameter. It attracts considerable attention.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1060, 30 May 1878, Page 4
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213TABLE ROCK, NIAGARA. Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1060, 30 May 1878, Page 4
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