Excerpt from Descriptive and Historical View of Burr's Moving Mirror of the Lakes: The Niagara, St. Lawrence and Saguernay Rivers Embracing the Entire Range of Border Scenery, of the United States Canadian Shores, From Lake Erie to the Atlantic

The public may rely on the accuracy of the views portrayed on this almost endless painting. They were not taken on a flying steamboat trip. The Proprietor, and that celebrated artist, Mr. E. P. Barnes, of New York city, walked the whole distance from lake erie along the banks OF the niagara To lake ontario, making full drawings of the entire range of scenery, encountering great peril in descending and drawing each other up the dizzy cliffs which overhang the Great Whirlpool at a height of several hundred feet.

Arriving at Lake Ontario, the proprietor fitted up a vessel, and with pilot crew, and all necessary conveniences for the Artists, proceeded with the draw ings as far as Quebec, where a second vessel was chartered, which arrived at Saguenay late in autumn - ending the voyage amid the snow and ice which abound in that region. Thus, two-thirds of a year were consumed in making the preliminary drawings.

Mr. Perham, the Proprietor of the Mirror, exhibited this painting in Boston for the period of eighteen months, and during that time brought into the city of Boston from various parts of New England and Canada, over people, in railroad and steamboat excursion parties. During the same time he arranged and successfully carried through excursion parties from Boston to New York, Washington, also to Niagara Falls, Montreal, and Quebec. Mr. Perham is, in fact, the father of the cheap excursion system in this country.

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