. Routes and rates for summer tours ... 1888 . St. Lawrencethrough a hilly country, and at the Chasmthe whole volume is forced through anarrow gorge, walled in on either sideby high and perpendicular cliffs, withbut one or two places where descent intothe Chasm can be made. In this gorge isone cascade of fifty feet fall. Passing down steps formed in therock, the descent being safe althoughquite abrupt in places, we come first to abroad flat rock, by which the river dashesover a high ledge. Such is the character of CathedralRock and the Bastile on the left andNiches of Jupiter on the right, nea
. Routes and rates for summer tours ... 1888 . St. Lawrencethrough a hilly country, and at the Chasmthe whole volume is forced through anarrow gorge, walled in on either sideby high and perpendicular cliffs, withbut one or two places where descent intothe Chasm can be made. In this gorge isone cascade of fifty feet fall. Passing down steps formed in therock, the descent being safe althoughquite abrupt in places, we come first to abroad flat rock, by which the river dashesover a high ledge. Such is the character of CathedralRock and the Bastile on the left andNiches of Jupiter on the right, nearlyopposite Vulcans Cave. These Nichesand Vulcans Cave are seen high up inthe cliffs, as we pass along the naturalpavement by the rippling surface of thestream. The sparkling waters in a brightglossy sheet glide down from one toanother of a series of smooth stone ter-races, sending upcloudsof tiny sparklingprisms, that in the sunlight show a suc-cession of iridescent bows that span the gleamin a half north of the village of the same name, is.
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