CASCADILLA AND SIX MILE CREEK. 8l 



half mile or more from the Aurora street bridge just 

 below a none too picturesque mill, the water plunges in 

 two leaps of twenty feet each over exceedingly irregular 

 moss-grown ledges into a mammoth pot-hole from which 

 the cascade takes the name of ' 'Well Falls. ' ' The tree- 

 clad walls of the amphitheatre into which the stream 

 pours, rise a hundred feet in a symmetrical curve. For 

 three-fourths of a mile above the mill dam the rivulet 

 winds and twists about in a serpentine course under the 

 shade of a superb grove. 



The "Narrows" is a savage chasm whose nearly ver- 

 tical walls, eighty-five feet in height, resemble tiers of 

 well-laid masonry. The wildness of the place is softened 

 by a few trees growing from the pavement. Between 

 this glen and the "Green Tree Fall, ' ' high banks shaggy 

 with brushwood and trees confine the channel. The 

 "Green Tree Fall," twenty -five feet in height, is re- 

 markable for its curious formation. The sharp, ragged 

 rocks down which the water splashes in sparkling spray, 

 present the appearance of having once been a row of 

 great pot-holes that had been cut vertically across the 

 stream, and the lower part torn away. The cliffs about 

 the fall are over sixty feet high. Above the fall the 

 water ripples through a wild ravine containing the 

 usual variety of miniature cascades, shaded pools 

 and water-worn rocks. Above this, the creek wan- 

 ders through broad cultivated fields. "High Fall," 

 is a rarely visited cascade of sixty-five feet, on a small 

 tributary of Six Mile Creek, ten miles from Ithaca. 



