The Americans and Englishmen walked up the left bank of the Niagara on their way to Goat Island, the neutral ground between the falls.

Let us leave them in the presence of the boiled eggs and traditional ham, and floods enough of tea to make the cataract jealous, and trouble ourselves no more about them.

It is extremely unlikely that we shall again meet with them in this story.
Which was right; the Englishman or the American?
It is not easy to say.

Anyhow the duel shows how great was the excitement, not only in the new but also in the old world, with regard to an inexplicable phenomenon which for a month or more had driven everybody to distraction.
Never had the sky been so much looked at since the appearance of man on the terrestrial globe.

The night before an aerial trumpet had blared its brazen notes through space immediately over that part of Canada between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.