. Ithaca and its resources. Being an historical and descriptive sketch of the "Forest city" and its magnificent scenery ... \1V\NGK KU\i \TS RLSOVi^CLS \3. FOREST FALL, ITHACA GORGE-60 FEET. nell went down on the Cayuga and Seneca canal, where work of that kind wasgoing on, and observed the process of rock blasting, hired an Irishman who wasaccustomed to rock drilling, and returned in two or three days, and with the aidof five men and 1,000 kegs of gunpowder, in about six months had this holethrough the rocks, 15 feet high, 15 feet wide and 200 feet long. The ricketywooden flume was then aband
. Ithaca and its resources. Being an historical and descriptive sketch of the "Forest city" and its magnificent scenery ... \1V\NGK KU\i \TS RLSOVi^CLS \3. FOREST FALL, ITHACA GORGE-60 FEET. nell went down on the Cayuga and Seneca canal, where work of that kind wasgoing on, and observed the process of rock blasting, hired an Irishman who wasaccustomed to rock drilling, and returned in two or three days, and with the aidof five men and 1,000 kegs of gunpowder, in about six months had this holethrough the rocks, 15 feet high, 15 feet wide and 200 feet long. The ricketywooden flume was then abandoned, and the water has since been conducted fromthe dam then built above the Falls, through the tunnel and down a raceway cut inthe solid rock to the veritable hive of industry below. Having lingered longer than was intended around this first fall, we will re-trace our steps across the plateau and begin the ascent to the peak of the craggyrocks, more than a hundred feet aloft. The path winds around the amphitheatre,just above that by which we arrived at the plateau, for a short distance, and thenby a zig-zag course conducts us to a point about fift
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