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in the summer season, when the stream is much reduced. 
The best time to view it is in the spring, when the snows 
are dissolving, which swelling its size and ‘increasing its 
current, add much to the beauty of this fall. 
Eastern fall of the Kaaterskill. 
I ued this cascade immediately after viewing the west~ 
ern fall on the Kaaterskill, when the column of water was 
swollen to eight or ten times its common size, iui shall 
describe it as it then appeared. The rock over which the 
water descends, projects in such a manner that the cascade 
forms part of a parabolic curve. After siriking a rock be- 
low, it runs down an inclined Lrg a few rods in length, 
eager vot er another re _of one 
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wibeh, as it t fell, peste to the eye a brilliant emanation. 
Here it was broken, and formed a continued succession of 
showers. Large globules of water, of a soft, pearly lustre, 
enriched with a prismatic reflection, shot off in tangents to 
the curve of the nara and being drawn be the attraction 
of gravitation, united a h 
shining through a ree etconaplaites septa on it his 
glittering rays, mupenns like a moving column of transpar- 
ent snow. e spray rising to the height of several “gern 
feet, was continually agitated by a strong wind, which 
birth to a number of rainbows. They were Hevided one 
above the other, and increased in brilliancy towards the 
base of the cascade, where, as well as at the lower fall, an 
Iris spread its arch of glory, tinging the rocks and foliage 
with its brightest colours. 
he ground below these cascades continued descending 
at an angle of 45°, forming a hollow like an inverted cone, 
of one th dfeet in depth. This was lined with lofty 
trees, rae i verdant tops, varying from the dark sora f 
to the light maple, were bending with the wind. Through 
this waving forest the cascade appeared at various distances, 
sparkling with the rays of the sun, and forming a fine con- 
trast to the sombre rocks which surround it. From this — 
cavity, at the distance of several miles, a peak rose to an’ 
elevation of two thousand feet, while the mountains on the © 
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