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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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ch, encroaching on the path, drivesthe visitor close under a low projecting cliff thatcompels him to stoop, and seems to demand homageas a prerequisite of admission to the splendid sceneryjust beyond. Here all ages and sexes bow, whowould pass from the portico into the grand templeof natures magnificence, to witness the display ofher sublimer glories. This service performed, there opens upon us,when the water is low, an expansion of flat rock,where we are suddenly transported with a full viewof the High Falls, forty rods beyond. The eye,elevated at a considerable angle, beholds a perpen-dicular rock one hundred feet high, extending acrossthe opening in a diagonal line from the mountainouswalls on each side rising seventy or eighty feet stillhigher. Over this the whole river descends, firstperpendicularly about forty feet, the main bodyrushing to the left. On the right it pours down ina beautiful white sheet. For a short distance inthe middle the rock is left entirely naked, exhibiting
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ILLUSTRATED. 21 a perpendicular and bold breastwork, as thoughreared by art to divide the beautiful white sheet onthe one side from the overwhelming fury of thewaters on the other. They unite on a flat below ;then, with a tumultuous foam, veer suddenly downan inclination of rocky steps, whence the whole riveris precipitated into a wide, deep, and dark basin,forty feet underneath—mountainous walls rising oneach side of the stream nearly two hundred feet—tall hemlocks and bendino- cedars extendinc^ theirbranches on the verge above—small shrubbery va-riegating here and there their stupendous and nakedsides. On the rio-ht of the basin a charmino- verdureentirely overspreads a smoothly rounding and ma-jestic prominence, which reaches half way up thetowering summit, and over the whole sky mmgleswith retiring evergreens, until verging in perspectiveto the distant angle of incidence, they are lost in theethereal expanse beyond. Such are the High Falls, which the pen mayfaintly describe,

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