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up from deep springs that know not summer sun. The 

 constant change in the scenery, the bustle at the various 

 little landings, clear sky and pure air, all combine to 

 furnish the keenest enjoyment and gratification. 



On the east shore of the lake, some three miles from 

 Ithaca, begins a series of palisade-like cliffs, presenting 

 a peculiar and interesting jointed formation of the rocks. 

 No better specimen of this structure exists anywhere, 

 and Prof. Dana in his manual of Geology has presented 

 an illustration of these rocks to show this formation. 

 The Cayuga L,ake Railroad runs along just at the base 

 of these cliffs. This road follows the edge of the lake 

 for its entire length. In winter storms, the water is not 

 infrequently blown across the track, and freezing there, 

 makes the road impassible. Burdick's Glen, Shurger's 

 Ravine, and the Ludlowville Gorge, all join the lake be- 

 tween Ithaca and Ludlowville, a distance of some seven 

 miles. On the west bank of the lake pretty summer 

 cottages dot the wooded banks as far as Glenwood, 

 three miles. Glenwood occupies a little point that juts 

 out into the lake, and is fitted up with many conveni- 

 ences for the transient visitor. No one who visits it on 

 a summer afternoon or evening, can doubt its popularity. 

 A short distance beyond Glenwood a long narrow point 

 runs out into the lake. This is Crowbar Point, the 

 same that appears to shut off the view to one looking 

 down the lake from Ithaca. Beyond this point the lake 

 bends quite sharply to the westward. Some four miles 

 beyond, Taughannock landing is reached, where a low 

 peninsula has been built out some distance into the lake 



