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3000 feet above the interval of Swift river, and having deep ravines on 

 the east and west, from the north it seems to stand up massive and alone. 

 From the mterval looking towards the north and north-west, we have a 

 grand view of the mountains; but, ascending any of the small elevations 

 south of the interval, the area of vision is increased ten-fold. Towards 

 Mt. Carrigain the view is almost unobstructed, and there are many gen- 

 tle undulations, with here and there a granite cliff standing out in bold 

 relief, besides magnificent forests sweeping away up to the summits 

 of the mountains ; for none of the mountains to the west have been 

 denuded of trees. In full view, Mt. Carrigain stands in all its massive 

 grandeur, while north and south there are sharp peaks and mountain 

 ridges. Still to the north, and yet not so far distant but that each peak 

 and mountain ridge stands in sharp outline, the White Mountains rise in 

 successive culminations, until Mt. Washington,— monarch of the range, — 

 seems to touch the sky. While the immediate surroundings and the dis- 

 tant views are among the most attractive in the whole mountain region, 

 there are two falls not far from the interval, one of which is of exquisite 

 beauty. One of the falls is on Sabba Day brook, just in the edge of 

 Waterville. The rock is a common granite, in which there is a trap 

 dyke, and it is the disintegration of this, probably, that formed the chasm 

 below where the steep fall now is. Above, just before we come to the 

 falls, the stream turns to the west, and the water runs through a channel 

 worn in the solid rock, and then, in one leap of twenty-five feet, it 

 clears the perpendicular wall of rock, and falls into the basin below al- 

 most on the opposite side of the chasm. Great is the commotion pro- 

 duced by the direct fall of so great a body of water, and out of the basin, 

 almost at right angles with the fall, it goes in whirls and eddies. The 

 chasm extends perhaps a hundred feet below where the water first strikes. 

 Its width is from ten to fifteen feet, and the height of the wall is from 

 fifty to sixty. The water has worn out the granite on either side of the 

 trap, so that, as the clear, limpid stream flows through the chasm, the 

 entire breadth of the dyke is seen. The fall of water, the whirls and 

 eddies of the basin, the flow of the limpid stream over the dark band of 

 trap set in the bright, polished granite, the high, overhanging wall of 

 rock, all combine to form a picture of beauty, which, once fixed in the 

 mind, is a joy forever. The other falls referred to are known as Champ- 



