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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



PHOTOGRAPHS OF TWO WATERFALLS 



BY HERBERT M. FLORA, MADISON, 

 INDIANA. 



Clifty Falls are four and one-half 

 miles northwest of Madison, Indiana, 

 where there is a splendid summer resort 

 frequented by thousands during the sea- 

 son. These falls are a most beautiful 

 sight, the water falling in a great broad 

 sheet for ninety- four feet. 



Tunnel Falls are situated about three 

 miles northwest of Madison. These 

 beautiful falls are almost inaccessible 

 but it is estimated that the fall of the 

 water is between eighty and eighty-five 

 feet. 



TUNNEL FALLS. 

 Eighty-two foot fall of water. 



INTERESTING EXAMPLE OF EROSION. 



BY GEO. W. KELLOGG. 



The workings of 



opposing 



natural 



CLIFTY FALLS. 

 Ninetv-four foot fall of water. 



forces, destructive and constructive, are 

 illustrated in the picture. A small 

 stream, cutting its bed through lime- 

 stone, has bisected a subterranean pas- 

 sage, the conveyor of underground 

 drainage containing a considerable 

 amount of mineral matter in solution ; 

 and by precipitation and evaporation at 

 the outlet thus formed, there is being 

 builded from the deposits of mineral mat- 

 ter the mass shown herewith. The up- 

 per surface has the appearance of a huge 

 boulder, but beneath the mass is more 



