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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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n-tracts, and leaves a narrow aperture, through which we see mountainous walls retiring invarious curvatures and projections. Directly opposite our eyes is a large rock, perpen-dicular as the Tarpeian Cliff, at .whose base the waters glide with a swift, calm motion,and are dark and deep. Close to this, a tower of limestone rises in a vast column at 462 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. its side, commanding like a king the iiills around. At our feet is a basin, where thewater collects its forces, and reposes in preparation for the contests to come. Fartherdown, it glides by a gentle descent,through a charming plain, and is hid-den behind the overhanging cedars Still ascending the stream of theKanata, though the foaming, dashingwaters would seem to forbid our pas-sage, we come upon a grandamphitheatre of rock, unseen be-fore, where towers a mass oflimestone, from whose impend-ing clifif great slabs fall year by ^^^^year. Between this «^^^ deposited pile andits base the path runs; ,„ 4;and to keep
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Lovers Walk. TRENTON FALLS. 463 out of harms way, for fear a slab should take a fancy to drop at the moment of ourvisit, we hug the waters edge, being less alarmed at its threatening roar than at thesilent menace of the overhanging limestone. The danger from the falling rocks isgreater in the spring-time, after the frosts of winter. As we pass beyond this column, we discover a singular natural fireplace, carvedout by the river, in a sportive mood, from some soft spot in the rock. Here, also, a rilldescends a few feet below the shelving ledge of the summit. A cedar extends down itselongated boughs, which a sailor could easily seize, and mount upward. Here the stratumis composed of bivalve shelves, terebratulas, and producti, with merely a cement to unitethem together; and, a few rods up the stream, there is an extraordinary interruption ofthe strata—a dendriform interposition, which has very much the appearance, as to sizeand form, of an aged hemlock turned up by the roots, with its

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