Olmsted, F. A., on Goat Island flora, 16-18; mentioned, 77-78, 119 Ontario Power Co., 104, 108, 112, 117 Ottawa River, in Ice Age, 63 P Papineau in Patriot War, 290 Parkman's works quoted, 171, _seq._ Patch, Sam, jumps at Niagara, 133 Patriot War, Bourinot on the, 288-291 Peere, Stephen, tight-rope artist, 131 Percy, C. A., goes through rapids, 146-149 Perry, Lieut. O. H., captures Fort George, 274-276 Pike at the capture of York, 302 _seq._ Pittsburg Reduction and Mining Co., 118 Platt, John J., mentioned, 80 Portage, old Niagara, 15, 18 Porter's Bluff, 33 Porter, Judge, 37, 38, 96 Porter, Hon. Peter A., _Guide Book_, 11; _Old Fort Niagara_, 11, 197, 200, 207-209, 213; _Goat Island_, 11, 19; on proposed attack on Fort Niagara in 1755, 207-209; on commercial importance of Fort Niagara, 213-214 Potts, William, Niagara crank, 139 Pouchot, Gen., surrenders Fort Niagara, 209-213 _Poughkeepsie Eagle_ quoted, 80 Power development at Niagara, 99-122 Prideaux, Gen. John, captures Fort Niagara, 209 _seq._ Prospect Point, 20, 21 Q "Quebec Act," effect of, 217-218 Queen Victoria Park, 44, 108 Queen's Royal Hotel, 51 Queenston, 50 Queenston Heights, 48; battle on, 263 _seq._ R Rapids of Niagara, 11-15, 22, 45, 46, 49-50; Hunter's painting of, 11, 14 Read, D. B., _The Life and Times of General Brock_, cited, 232 Red Jacket, anecdote of, 22 Reed, Andrew, suggests reclamation of Niagara, 77 Remington, C. K., on the building-site of the _Griffon_, 183 _Road to Frontenac, The_, mentioned, 162 Robb, J. H., on first Niagara Commission, 80 Robinson, Joel, sails the _Maid of the Mist_ through lower rapids, 144-146 Rogers, Sherman S., on first Niagara Commission, 80 S St. Davids, Ont., in the history of geologic Niagara, 63 St. Lawrence drainage, 3 St. Lawrence River, George Waldo Browne on, 4 Schlosser, Capt., 15, 213; see Fort Schlosser Scott, Gen. Winfield, in War of 1812, 267 _seq._ _Scribner's Monthly_ quoted, 25 Senecas dominate Niagara frontier, 5 Severance, F. H., _Old Trails of the Niagara Frontier_, 6, 219-222 Sheaffe, Gen., mentioned, 268 _seq._ Ship Island, 30 "Shipyard of the _Griffon_," the, see Remington Shirley, Gov., plans Niagara attack, 207 "Shoreless Sea," the, 45 Silliman, Prof., Basil Hall writes, 34-35 Simcoe, Gov., John Graves, mentioned, 229, 294 _seq._ Smyth, Gen., in War of 1812, 271 _seq._ Spelterini, Signorina, tight-rope artist, 130 Spencer, J. W., estimates Niagara's age, 66 Spouting Rock, 41 Steadman Bluff, 30 Steadman, John, first owner of Goat Island, 18 Steel arch bridge, built by Roebling, 46 _Story of Canada, The_, by Bourinot, quoted, 288-291 Sullivan's campaign of 1779, 223 T Table Rock, 38, 45 Taft, Sec'y William H., on the "destruction of Niagara," 117-120