. Summer excursion routes & rates . . . t ravines or gorges, through which thewater from the surrounding hill level has for ages been cutting its fantastic way overcascade and waterfall to the lake below. Through the largest of these ravines, Ithaca Gorge, the water finds its way to thelake level by a descent of about five hundred feet in less than a mile, between per-pendicular walls of rock several himdred feet high and over a series of cascades andwaterfalls until it takes its final plunge over Ithaca Falls, 160 feet high and 100 feetwide. At the head of this ravine, near Triphammer Falls,
. Summer excursion routes & rates . . . t ravines or gorges, through which thewater from the surrounding hill level has for ages been cutting its fantastic way overcascade and waterfall to the lake below. Through the largest of these ravines, Ithaca Gorge, the water finds its way to thelake level by a descent of about five hundred feet in less than a mile, between per-pendicular walls of rock several himdred feet high and over a series of cascades andwaterfalls until it takes its final plunge over Ithaca Falls, 160 feet high and 100 feetwide. At the head of this ravine, near Triphammer Falls, is located the large reser-voir and new hydraulic canal and laboratory, of Cornell L^niversity, the only thing ofits kind in America, in itself an object of great interest. Here too, just below theFalls, a new bridge spans the chasm 200 feet above the stream below. Further downare the great water wheels which supply power to the mechanical department of theUniversity, still further the plant of the Ithaca Street Railway Company, and at.
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