In winter the high winds which prevail, sometimes for days at a time, catch the spray from the American Fall and carry it far back into the forest growth, the trees become ice-laden, and the transformation that takes place is beautiful in the extreme.] [Illustration: THE RED MAN’S FACT THE WHITE MAN’S FANCY FROM THE FAMOUS PAINTINGS BY JAMES FRANCIS BROWN. To the Indians the thundering of the water was the voice of the Great Spirit; the spray-cloud his habitation. A portion of the crops and spoils of the chase were annually offered as tokens, and the fairest maiden of a tribe was sacrificed by being sent over the falls in a canoe laden with fruits and flowers. No less than the Red Man, is his successor, the White Man, impressed with the majesty of the Creator’s power as displayed in the grandeurs of Niagara. “Between falling flood and rising cloud, you imagine a mystical meaning in the passage of body to soul, of matter to spirit, of human to divine.”] [Illustration: ROCK OF AGES, AT CAVE OF THE WINDS. Surrounded with an atmosphere of sentiment is this view at Niagara. It forms an artistic and pleasing picture. Evidently at some remote time in the past the rock has fallen from the cliff above. The famous cave of the winds lies back of the Center Fall. It is 100 feet high, 100 feet wide and 60 feet deep.]