. Routes and rates for summer tours ... 1888 . avalances of snowdust shimmering into rainbow mist;and the Rhine will plunge once more over its little rocky barrier, sending its murmur far intothe haunted depths of the Black Forest beside you. Or, further on and fainter still, the rapidsof the Nile and the rills of Lebanon will rush and gurgle as you did not dream to hear themagain, nor will your fancy rest until it sinks in the Oriental languor of the banks of the Abanaand Pharpar, rivers of Damascus. Thus did Mrs. Kemble describe her impressions : Presently we arrived at the first fall ;I can
. Routes and rates for summer tours ... 1888 . avalances of snowdust shimmering into rainbow mist;and the Rhine will plunge once more over its little rocky barrier, sending its murmur far intothe haunted depths of the Black Forest beside you. Or, further on and fainter still, the rapidsof the Nile and the rills of Lebanon will rush and gurgle as you did not dream to hear themagain, nor will your fancy rest until it sinks in the Oriental languor of the banks of the Abanaand Pharpar, rivers of Damascus. Thus did Mrs. Kemble describe her impressions : Presently we arrived at the first fall ;I cant describe it ; I dont know either its height or width ; I only know it was extremelybeautiful, and came pouring down like a great rolling heap of amber. The rocks around arehigh to the heavens, scooped, and singularly regular ; and the sides of the torrent are everynow and then paved with large, smooth layers of rock, as even and regular in their proportionsas if fairies had done the work. When we came to the beautiful circular fall we crept. LIKDb-E\E \It,\V FRdM UIL UNNACLL. ROME, JVATERTOIV?/ AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD. down to a narrow ridge and satwith our feet lianging -over theblack caldron, just opposite avivid rainbow that was claspingthe waterfall. We walked, I sup-pose, a mile and a half along the ^waters side, and in this distance i^its course is broken by six beauti- ^fe?.,ful cataracts. The several falls * >are ver) various in their heightand form, but they are all beauti-ful, most beautiful, ■ Trenton is not a place to visitfor a day, but to live the summer away in. Among the most beautiful de-scriptions of this lovely place arethose found in letters by N PWillis, which appeared in the Home Journal. Space permitsonly one short extract: Themost ciijoyahly heaiitifnl spotamong the resorts of romantRscenery in our country is TrentonFalls. To the lovers of nature whovisit it, the resemblance of itsloveliness becomes the brightspot to which dream and reverieoftenes
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