'Birmingham Falls, Ausable Chasm', 1874. Waterfall, (later renamed Rainbow Falls), in the Ausable Chasm near Keeseville, New York State, USA. '...the Ausable chasm, which afford some of the wildest and most impressive scenes to be found on this side of the Rocky Mountains. At the distance of a mile or so from Keeseville is Birmingham Falls, where the Ausable [river] descends about thirty feet into a semicircular basin of great beauty'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Illustrations on Steel and Wood


'Birmingham Falls, Ausable Chasm', 1874. Waterfall, (later renamed Rainbow Falls), in the Ausable Chasm near Keeseville, New York State, USA. '...the Ausable chasm, which afford some of the wildest and most impressive scenes to be found on this side of the Rocky Mountains. At the distance of a mile or so from Keeseville is Birmingham Falls, where the Ausable [river] descends about thirty feet into a semicircular basin of great beauty'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]


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