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 1801 of producing, and which terror lest the treacherous rock crumble 



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beneath the feet by no means contributes to diminish. 



From a settlement called Birch's Mills, on level ground below 

 the bank, the rapids are displayed to great advantage ; they dash 

 from one rocky declivity to another, and hasten with foaming 

 fury to the precipice. The bank along whose summit the 

 carriage-road extends, affords many rich, although partial views 

 of the falls and rapids. They are from hence partly excluded 

 from the eye by trees of different kinds, such as the oak, the 

 ash, the beech, fir, sassafras, cedar, walnut, and tulip-trees. 



About two miles further down the side of the river, at a situa- 

 tion called Bender's, an extensive and general prospect of the 

 falls, with the rapids and islands, is at once developed to the 

 eye of the spectator. On descending the bank which in several 

 places is precipitous and difficult, and on emerging from the 

 woods at its base, a wonderful display of grand and stupendous 

 objects is at once expanded to the view. From amid immense 

 fragments of rock, and lacerated trees which have descended in 

 the current of the waters, the eye is directed upwards toward 

 the falls, that of Fort Slausser being on the left, and the Great 

 Horse-shoe fall immediately in front. On the right is a lofty 

 bank profusely covered with diversity of foliage, beyond which 

 the naked, excavated rock discloses itself. 



The Horse-shoe fall is distinguished not only by its vastness, 

 but by the variety of its colours. The waters at the edge of the 

 Table Rock are of a brownish cast, further on of a brilliant 

 white, and in the center, where the fluid body is greatest, a 

 transparent green appears. Around the projection, which is 

 in the form of a horse-shoe, the water is of a snowy whiteness. 

 A cloud of thick vapour constantly arises from the center, part 

 of which becomes dissolved in the higher regions of the atmos- 

 phere, and a part spreads itself in dews over the neighbouring 



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