Thoreau writes in his journal:
Go to Suspension Bridge & walk up the Canadian side. Completest view of Falls from that side. Pestered by coachman &c. &c. Clifton House commands best view of any public house. P.m. To river above falls. A man calls ducks coweens & says that the other ducks & geese, both wild & tame, alight in a mist & are often carried over falls. Catch with seine black & white bass, pickerel, muskelonge, &c. & under falls eels, catfish, &c. Find Indian pottery. In woods east of town, red-bellied woodpecker.
(Thoreau’s Minnesota Journey, 2)
