76 IN AND OUT OF ITHACA. 



be caught glimpses of the red-tiled roof and turrets of 

 the stately McGraw-Fiske mansion peeping through the 

 piney fringe of the castellated cliffs across the chasm. 



Passing through a grove the walk extends downward 

 around the curve of a second amphitheatre, sometimes 

 known as "Trouble Bay," to a little plateau directly 

 above the second, or "Forest Fall," sixty feet in height, 

 appropriately named from the densely wooded sides of 

 the ravine. No word short of "magnificent" could 

 characterize the view to the westward from this point. 

 The deep green of the cedar-clad slopes of the foreground, 

 the creamy foam of the fall beneath, the vertical cliffs 

 of the "Palisades" almost meeting above the water, 

 to make a great tube through which glorious vistas of 

 the plains, the lake, and the hills beyond are obtained, 

 fill one with a feeling little short of awe. 



The path now takes an upward bend and soon brings 

 to view the third fall. This, although only thirty feet 

 high, is very beautiful. The brink is shaped rudely 

 like the letter V ; the water rushing toward the point 

 and falling inwards toward the narrow re-entrant angle, 

 is beaten into a boiling froth and justifies the title of 

 ' 'Foaming Fall. ' ' The steep banks are still clothed with 

 a dense growth of cedars and hemlocks and crowned 

 with groves of deciduous tree. 



Between the "Foaming Fall" and the fourth, or 

 "Rocky Fall," the creek rushes along in a tumultuous 

 torrent. The water at the latter cascade pours down 

 fifty-five feet into a third amphitheatre bending towards 

 the south. At this fall is the turbine which supplies the 



