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Account of the Kaatskill Mountains. 7 
pers or obstructed in its course by some rock precipitated 
m above, rushing around it with great impetuosity, now 
tate a rapid or precipice with a hoarse thunder, or 
stealing gently along with an uninterrupted current. 
the opposite side of the stream, the rocks rise at an angle of 
70° about fiwe hundred feet in height, when they lift their 
heads five hundred more, presenting a precipice of salient 
and reentering angles looking like the rude bastions of a’ 
natural fortification. ‘The road for about a mile runs on the 
south side.of the stream, which it then again crosses and 
continues on me: near it, until it reaches the top of the moun- 
urn your eye towards the east, you behold 
this ravine five wiles in length, bounded by eminences of sev- 
eral thousand feet in Seon a forming a vista of mountains, 
panier 200 fe emugh wh eee 
and dale: their Sacer fields and 
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Vestern fall of the Kaaterskill, 
At the termination of this ravine, a short distance from 
Parmaters, is a cascade of great beauty, formed by the wa- 
ters of the main branch of the Kaaterskill. This stream is 
formed by the union of two branches, one rising in two 
lakes about one and a half miles east of this cascade, the 
other about half the distance in a northerly direction. The 
best view of this fall is from below, the foliage above “— 
so thick as ina great measure to obscure it. Belo 
fall the banks of the stream, which are neatly three satel er 
feet in height, rise almost perpendicularly from the surface 
of the water. I visited it during the last Tian (1819) 
3 few hours after a very heavy rain. In company with my 
riend E- I descended the bank, sink, owing to the 
shower, was very difficult. The rocks were either loose or 
covered with moss, which, wet with the rain, prevented us 
rom obtaining a firm foothold. In many instances we 
were saved from a fall of many feet, by grasping some 
neighbouring twig, which, if it was not pulled up by t 
roots, served at least to stop us till we could ences Sm 
ground. We stationed ourselves near the foot of 
where the view amply a mr us for the aifteules 
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