Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Illustrated Rochester, 1898-1899
There are those yet living who remember to have seen the curling smoke from the Indian's wigwam on the banks of the Genesee; saw the Redman follow trails that brought him from forest depths to the great falling waters. Tradition has it that this region was enchanted ground to the dwellers of the forest. Hither they brought their children to hear the voice of Manitou in the diapason of the lower, the middle and the upper falls. Within sound of the v0ice of the Great Spirit, the sachems held their solemn councils. In the sweet - scented air, rich with the odors of burning cedar, pine cones, or willow bark, and the perfume of wild ?owers, youths and maidens rambled, and the old, old stories were told and listened to.
With such scenes of simple life and perfect liberty, with the Eden-like in?uences of primitive habits and powerful magnetic forces of these children of Nature, the region on which Rochester now stands, was baptized.
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