22, Account of the Kaatskill Mountains. 
right and left, impressed their bold outlmes on the sky be- 
yond them. 
The best view of this scene, is a few rods from the base 
of the lower fall. These cascades are both of them in a 
direct line, and by standing in this position can be united in 
one. By raising your eyes, a fall of four hundred feet ap- 
pears precipitated from the precipices above, apparently 
ready to overwhelm you, while the rocks above overhang 
the abyss in wild sublimity, threatening you with destruc- 
tion. 
A few years since, I visited this spot in company with a 
number of gentlemen, and lodged on the mountaim. Sev- 
eral of our company left us, early in the morning, to hunt 
the wild game ona neighbouring peak, and agreed to meet 
us at the fall. They arrived while we were at the foot of 
the lower cascade, and to apprise us of their approach, dis- 
charged one of their fowling pieces. ‘The cavity was im- 
mediately filled with the sound, which resembled the dis- 
charge of a small cannon. The report went from peak to 
peak, each one rolling back the thunder ere the last echo 
had died upon the ear, until having given from ten to twenty 
distinct reverberations, it passed away, leaving no sound but 
the roar of the cascade. 
Column of Ice. 
The appearance of the upper cascade in the middle of 
winter, is very interesting. ‘The rock over which the stream 
descends, projects in such a manner, that the icicles which 
form in that season, meet with no mterruption in their de- 
scent towards the base of the fall. ‘I'he water which strikes 
the rocks below, begins to congeal and rise (between the 
column of water and the rock,) towards the icicles above. 
These project towards the base, increasing in magnitude 
from day to day, while the column from below is ‘ereatly 
enlarged by the water and the spray, which immediately 
congealing, in a short time surrounds the stream. A column 
of ice, resembling a rude cone, of between two and three 
hundred feet, is thus formed, through the centre of which 
the stream pours its current, dwindled, by the congelation 
of its waters, to one-tenth its common size. When illu- 
mined by the rays of the sun, it presents a transparent 
