![]() He then quietly withdrew, and reared for himself a less commodious shelter, near Prospect Point. Here he continued about twenty months, until the intrusion of a family interrupted his recluse habits. Circumstances forbidding a compliance with his request, be took up his residence in an old house upon Iris Island, which he rendered as comfortable as the state of the case would admit. He applied for a spot upon the island of the "Three Sisters," where he might construct a cottage after his own model, which comprised, among other peculiarities, isolation by means of a drawbridge. But the fascination which all minds of sensibility feel, in the presence of that glorious work of the Creator, grew strongly upon him, and he was heard to say, that six weeks were inadequate to become acquainted with its outlines.Īt the end of that period, he was still unable to tear himself away, and desired to "build there a tabernacle," that he might indulge both in his love of solitary musings, and of nature's sublimity. He was deeply impressed by the majesty and sublimity of the Cataract, and its surrounding scenery, and expressed an intention to remain a week, that he might examine it accurately. It was at first conjectured that be might be an artist, as a large portfolio, with books and musical instruments, were observed among his baggage. While wrought the frost-king fierce and drear,Ībout fifteen years since, in the glow of early Summer, a young stranger, of pleasing countenance and person, made his appearance at Niagara. With heaven's own pencil, tinged and spanned,
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