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22 Account of the Kaatskill Mountains. 
right — sa eet their bold outlines on the sky be- | 
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~The we view of this scene, is a few rods from the baie 
of the lower fall.. ‘These cascades are both of them’in a 
direct line, and by standing in this position can be united in 
one. By raising your eyes, a fall of four hundred feet ap- 
pears precipitated from the precipices above, apparently 
ready to overwhelm you, while the rocks above overhang 
ee abyss in wild sublimity, apm you with destruc- 
nak few years since, I visited this spot in company with a 
sont of gentlemen, and lodged on the mountain. Sev- 
charge ofa ornell-eaison "hres wom fo ee 
the roar of the cascade. 
Column of Ice. 
The appearance of the mpper cascade in the middle of 
he rock over which the stream — 
descends, projects in such a manner, that the icicles which — 
form in that season, meet with no interruption in their de- 
scent towards the base of the fall. The water which strikes _ 
the rocks below, begins to congeal and rise (between the — 
Winter, is very interesting. 
column of water and the rock,) towards the icicles above. 
These project towards the base, increasing in magnitude | 
from day to day, while the column from below is greatly 
distinet er etichacons it spent away, leaving no 9 sound but 
enlarged by the water and the aes which immediately 4 
of ice, resembling a rude cone, of between two and three 
hundred feet, is thus formed, through the centre of which 
the stream pours its current, dwindled, by the congelation 
of its waters, to one-tenth its common size. n illu- 
‘mined by the rays of the sun, it presents a omnipinile 
-congealing, in a short time surrounds the stream. A column — ; 
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