Recto:

l.r. in image: 435

l.l. to l.r. printed: 275 American Falls from Goat Isle, Niagara Falls

Verso [vertical]:

u.l. to c.l. printed: AMERICAN FALL from Goat Island -- \ Winter. In the foreground and in the up- \ per distance is presented all that there is of \ life and motion in this picture of what may \ be termed the Ice King's wrath. This tum- \ bling torrent races past; the dashing spray \ turns to ice on either side; even the brnik [sic] \ of the precipice is a jagged mass of crystal. \ It was in the torrent in the foreground that \ the mysterious Francis Abbott, the Hermit of \ the Falls, lost his life. He lived for two \ years on one of the islands in Niagara River \ above the Falls. No one knew whence he \ came. The waters fascinated him, and in the \ end, one bright day in June, sixty-one years \ ago, they lured him to his death. A week \ afterward the torn and mangled body of the \ hermit was found at the mouth of the river \ and buried within sound of the Falls he loved \ so well.

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

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