Asahel H Woodruff Answered June 27 [18]84 Manchester May ^June^ 1 [18]84 Dear Father I trust this letter will find you in good health as it leaves me at present. I recieved your verry welcome letter dated May the first just after posting the last letter I wrote you. As regards what I saw at the Falls, will say they landed us at Cliftan at 9 PM, this is on the Canada side and so we had a ride across the suspen- sion bridge; we ...

2 experiance and on I shall not soon forget; the river just below the falls in 200 ft deep The burning spring is quite a curiosity, being impregnated with gass to such an extent that by lighting a match and holding it over, the whole spring will ignite like a gass jet. The next and in some respects the greatest curiosity, is the whirlpool & rapids where capt Weeb was drowned here the river makes a complete elbo like this [FIGURE] you see the stream passes in on the ...

3 brobaly fifty in number. Capt Bently said some of the larger ones would measure and hundred and thirty feet. Had a pretty rough sea the second day before landing, it was verry dificult to keep our feet on deck, at the approach ch of an extra high sea, the passengers would grab something for an anchor, & those who failed to do so were hurled with less ceremony than dispatch against the railing or bulwarks. It was laughable to see five or six big fellows rolled against the side and after befor they could regain their ...

4 and habits. You ask me how I like sea sick- ness; well a little goes a long ways. I think England a verry pretty country & if they had our atmosphere so pure & healthfull with about one fourth the present population and they about 400 years more modern in their habits (for they are about that far behind the americans) I would like to live here, but as they are to day if I was offerd one half the Island it would be no inducement. Of course this is an exageration but I am not ...