. Ithaca and its resources. Being an historical and descriptive sketch of the "Forest city" and its magnificent scenery ... rocks as to partake of the foamy whiteness be-longing to the product of the churn, rather than of the spring. But let me be your guide and we will visit each in turn, sail upon the lakeand enjoy a couple weeks of this golden October month in a Bohemian if, when your vacation is at an end, you do not partake of my enthusiasm andregister a vow to return here year after year and refresh your body with quiet andrest amidst these scenes of glen and rock and waterfal
. Ithaca and its resources. Being an historical and descriptive sketch of the "Forest city" and its magnificent scenery ... rocks as to partake of the foamy whiteness be-longing to the product of the churn, rather than of the spring. But let me be your guide and we will visit each in turn, sail upon the lakeand enjoy a couple weeks of this golden October month in a Bohemian if, when your vacation is at an end, you do not partake of my enthusiasm andregister a vow to return here year after year and refresh your body with quiet andrest amidst these scenes of glen and rock and waterfall, the memory of whichshould^ pleasantly haunt you; your mind with those better thoughts which thiscommunion with nature—leading you irresistibly to turn jour eyes from natureup to natures God—forces upon you ; then your bump of veneration is veryflat, indeed, and I would rather you went not with me. As one of the most at-tractive features of this ramble will be the great variety of striking objects andcharacteristics presented in the different glens and ravines, they will be visited \TVAKCN kH^ \TS R^SOViP^CtS. W. ITHACA FALL, ITHACA GORGE-150 FEET in the order in which this diversity is best illustrated, and we will accordingl}wend our way, first, to ITHICl GORGE. The Gorge is the strange, hidden enjoyment of a leaf out of Switzerland,almost in the streets of the town, said a writer in the New York IVor/d someyears ago, and when, after a short walk down Aurora street, we stand on the neatiron bridge spanning Fall Creek and gaze up into Ithaca Gorge, we feel that itis but a step from civilization into the depths of a wilderness. Alongside us theFall Creek manufactories; in front a dark, deep ravine. Pausing a moment tolisten to the roar of the waters and fix this picture in our minds—a foamingcataract, 150 feet in height and just as broad, with cliffs towering an hundred feetabove it on either side, the water circling round a dark eddy at its base, thencestruggling out a
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