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three miles south of the Glen house, near the height of land between 

 Jackson and Gorham, and upon Ellis river. The water flows from Tuck- 

 erman's ravine. The view takes in about eighty feet of descent over 

 slaty rocks crossed by igneous dikes. The view is taken from a high 

 bank opposite the fall. The water is much spread out in this cascade, 

 and, as the supply diminishes, is divided into several threads or frills. 



The Glen Ellis falls are a mile farther south, and upon the same 

 stream. These are a little higher than the one just mentioned. One 

 is best impressed by their grandeur if he rests against a tree overhang- 

 ing the precipice above the fall. The water is much more confined in 

 its flow than at the Crystal cascade, and is more constant in its shape 

 through both wet and dry seasons. 



The view of the Jackson falls is placed opposite page 256. The rock 

 here, and at the Goodrich falls lower down, represented in Vol. II, con- 

 sists of slightly inclined sheets of granite. They are upon the Ellis 

 river. 



Opposite page 310 is a representation of Berlin falls in the Andros- 

 coggin river. As this stream is fed from the large lakes in north-western 

 Maine, the supply is always large and constant. The descent is mostly 

 a rapid rather than a cascade, amounting to nearly two hundred feet in 

 the course of a mile. The gorge is nearly twenty feet deep, excavated 

 through dark schists ; and, by standing upon a bridge thrown across the 

 river, one can best watch the mad descent of the river, from the smooth 

 satin aspect to a "foam foliage, white and prismatic, cresting the leaping 

 waves, and running from fall to fall." Early in the summer, logs are con- 

 stantly passing through this narrow passage. These falls are close to 

 the carriage-road, about six miles above Gorham. 



Walker's falls, over granite sheets in Franconia, and Beecher's cascade, 

 a little west of the Crawford house, are placed upon the same heliotype, 

 opposite page 305. The joints are less easily recognized in the latter 

 example. The Emerald pool, opposite page 232, is one of the resting- 

 places for the active water in the midst of so much tumbling. It is just 

 above Thompson's falls, and near the Glen house. In Diana's Bath, 

 North Conway, opposite page 272, one sees a basin about ten feet deep, 

 into which water passes from over a sheet of granite. It is near the 

 "Cathedral." 



