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IF Mr. Cross, whose letter on the above subject appears in Nature (vol. xxvii. p. 150), will make what is for him a very short excursion from Boston to Niagara, he will see a very perfect and permanent illustration of contrast-colours. In the American fall, the pure, green, even sheet of water is “trimmed,” as it were, at regular intervals by broad bands of foam, which although, of course, really white, appear of a delicate rose pink hue. I noticed, and “made a note of this” ten years ago, and again this year. The effect heightens the beauty of the beautiful fall, and I am surprised that no poet has made capital out of it. I should like to call attention to the rapidity with which the Canadian fall is deepening its horse-shoe. An immense mass broke off near the middle of the curve in October, 1874 (many windows in the adjacent museum were broken by the concussion), and altogether the fall has receded twenty-four feet in ten years.
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MADAN, H. Complementary Colours at the Falls of Niagara. Nature 27, 174 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/027174c0
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