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Title: Trenton Falls, picturesque and descriptive:
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867, ed. (from old catalog) Sherman, John, 1772-1828. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Trenton Falls (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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with brick walls and dirtystreets, and when we come into Natures gorgeouspalaces of scenery, looking the forked radishesthat we are, there is no resisting the conviction thatwe are either wofully out of place, or not dressedwith suitable regard to the local pomp and circum-stance. Suggest to our friend Beebe to invent, atleast, a sombrero, and advertise it as the thing whichetiquette requires should be worn at Niagara andTrenton, instead of a hat with petty rim. Therewould be an obvious propriety in the fashion. WhereNature appears in her waterfall epaulettes, armorof rocks, and dancing plumes of foliage, surely thereshould be some manner of corresponding toggerywherewith to wait upon her. We have had the full of the moon and a cloudlesssky for the last two or three nights, and of coursewe have walked the ravine till the small hours,seeino- w^ith wonder the transformino- effects of moon-light and its black shadows on the Falls and preci-pices, I have no idea (you will be glad to know)
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ILLUSTRATED. *79 of trying to reproduce these sublimities on paper—at least not with my travelling stock of verbs andadjectives. To sandwich the moon in a muffin,one must have time and a ladder of dictionaries.But one or two effects struck me which perhaps areworth briefly naming, and I will throw into the lota poetical figure, which you may use in your nextsong—giving credit to your distinguished fellow-citizen, the Moon, for the original suggestion. The fourth Fall (or the one which is flanked bythe ruins of a saw-mill) is perhaps a hundred feetacross ; and its curve over the upper rock and itsbreak upon the lower one, form two parallel lines,the water everywhere falling the same distance withthe evenness of an artificial cascade. The streamnot being very full just now, it came over, in twentyor thirty places, thicker than elsewhere; and theeffect, from a distance, as the moonlight lay fullupon it, was that of twenty or thirty immovablemarble columns, connected by transparent cu

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