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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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as mortal man, and he describes the buffeting of theair as indescribable, the effect being like actual blows with the fist. As we return along the narrow path, we have leisure to examine the rock-wall, andto discern in it masses of white sulphur, mixed with limestone-lumps lying among theshale. We find also masses of pure, white quartz, sparkling like sugar, and pieces of sele-nite, or crystallized gypsum, which has a faint resemblance to asbestos, but is translucent.There are ferns growing in patches here and there, and a kind of water-cress, which, thenegro says, is good to eat, but there is so little of it that it would take months to collecta dish. Of moss—long, fine, green moss—there is an abundance, and it grows so delicatelythat it forces screams of admiration and thrills of delight from the ladies of our party.When we remount the stairs, and find ourselves once more on the upper earth, we aredivided in our minds whether to turn and examine the falls, which now begin to be
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66 442 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. comprehensible, or to doff our dripping over-suit and remove our drenched shoes. Ro-mance and sestheticism suggest the former, but prudence thunders out that the latter isimperative, if we do not wish to catch a violent catarrh ; so prudence carries it. There are two things which can now be done—take a glance at the rapids abovethe Horseshoe Falls, from the Prince of Waless Tower, or buy Indian curiosities. Forthose who are tired, the latter is no bad way of resting; but, for the strong-chested,strong-lunged visitors, the tower is decidedly preferable. We can walk comfortably here,while our friends are reposing; and we find ourselves side by side with a little streamletwhich comes from the northward, and, though nameless and insignificant, has the honorof falling into the Niagara before it takes the great plunge, and uniting its tiny waterswith the volume that pours forth its might in the tremendous curve of the cataract.We cross this streamlet by a prett

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