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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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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rock-wall of limestone, hard, and nearly black, that rises, almostperpendicularly, to a height varying from two to three hundred feet. This is crownedwith great hemlocks, with fine birches, whose white trunks glimmer through the forestobscurity, and with cedars, many of which, from the yielding of the roots, are bent downat a most perilous angle, and hang over the abyss, nodding to their own expected andimminent fall when the wind strikes among their outstretched branches. Down below,the eye drops instinctively, as if to see what would become of them, and catches aglimpse of the Kanata River rushing onward through its rocky bed in a tumultuoustorrent. Here the first descent is made by a series of wooden ladders, and, after a littleexertion, we are landed safely upon the bank of the stream, which is composed of flatmasses of limestone cut by the hand of Nature into great slabs, as evenly and as regu-larly as a mason would have done it. We look up and see the blue, brilliant sky, across
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GENERAL VIEW OF TRENTON FALLS, FROM EAST BANK, TRENTON FALLS. 455 which the cedars hang in dark lines. We look ahead, and see the first one of the seriesof the falls, which are six in number, and known as Sherman Fall, after John Sherman,the grandson of Roger Sherman, of Revolutionary fame, who discovered this superbchasm in 1806. Here the river has formed an immense excavation from the limestone,and falls some forty feet into its bed below with a most furious roaring. Its color is arich brown, which, touched here and there by slanting sun-rays, presents the hues ofmolten gold. Back of this sheet of water, the reaction of the torrent has worn awaythe rock in an exact circular curve, some ten feet in diameter, which exhibits a furiously-boiling caldron of white foam, streaked with every possible shade of brown. Below thisis a cloud of spray, looking like the thick smoke of burning leaves, which hides the tu-mult of the falling water. Here, in the afternoon, is a most lovely rainbow, wh

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