. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . a pointon the canon wall, aquarter of a mile iai-ther down, and from thebrink of the precijuceover which the riverplunges. Let us approachand look over. Down,down goes the wluil-ing mass, writhing andbattling with the rocks,against which it dasheswith a noise like the dis-charge of heavy artillery, resisting rock is m»it, and the water rebounds,br
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . a pointon the canon wall, aquarter of a mile iai-ther down, and from thebrink of the precijuceover which the riverplunges. Let us approachand look over. Down,down goes the wluil-ing mass, writhing andbattling with the rocks,against which it dasheswith a noise like the dis-charge of heavy artillery, resisting rock is m»it, and the water rebounds,broken into myriads of drops, which throwback to us the sunlight resolved into its primi-tive colors. The bottom reached, the columnbreaks into an immense cloud of spray, whosemoisture nourishes the vegetation on the wallsnear the fall. The river, before it pours overthe edge, narrows to about a hundred height of the fall has been variouslygiven. The measurement with a line in 1870,gave 350 feet as the result. Triangulation froma base line on the edge of the canon, by theGeological Survey in 1872, made it 397 feet,and a barometrical measurement in 1873, byCaptain Jones, made it feet. The Upper Falls are about a quarter of a mile. ASCEND1N(J TIIU GLACIERS OF MT. IIAVDEN. TME ^m€IFm T&WMMW* 333
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