XXVIII. 



ENFIELD GORGE. 



Next to the Fall Creek Gorge, the Enfield Glen is 

 most frequented by visitors. It is inferior in many re- 

 spects to the former, whose wonders it repeats with vari- 

 ation. The head of the gorge is between six and seven 

 miles from Ithaca, and is reached by driving out, either 

 on Cayuga street, or along the street at the foot of West 

 Hill, for both roads unite three miles from town. A 

 guide-board at a division of the road, just before reach- 

 ing the house of man}- gables, points to the right-hand 

 fork. Follow this past a little bridge, and up the hill 

 for two miles. Just beyond a white school-house, turn 

 to the left down a steep pitch into the little village of 

 Enfield Falls. The small, neatly kept hotel down a 

 green lane to the left, will provide you with a dinner or 

 lunch, upon which the most fastidious could not fail to 

 pass emphatic approval. The entrance to the gorge lies at 

 the end of a path leading from the hotel. The expense 

 of keeping the road through the glen in order is de- 

 frayed by a toll of ten cents on each visitor. The beau- 

 tiful valley from which the ravine opens, was evidentlv 

 the bed of an ancient lake. The creek cuts squarely 

 through the hill by a narrow cleft, the portal of which 

 is flanked by massive door posts of rock. The an- 

 gular joints and horizontal strata confirm the impres- 

 sion that the long passage-way had been hewn out and 

 walled up by skillful masons of ages ago. The shelving 



