. Trenton Falls, picturesque and descriptive: . ^ times the stream retires to. iL 4- ILLUSTRATED. 23 the right, and opens a wide pavement for a largeparty to walk abreast. Here a flight of stairs leadsup to a house of refreshment, styled the Rural Re-treat, twenty feet above the summit of the highfalls, and in a direct line with them—a house thirtyby sixteen, with a well furnished bar, and also aroom for gentlemen and ladies, encircled and shadedby hemlocks and cedars, from the front platform andwindows of which is a full view of the invertedscenery of the falls, of the flat rock below, and of
. Trenton Falls, picturesque and descriptive: . ^ times the stream retires to. iL 4- ILLUSTRATED. 23 the right, and opens a wide pavement for a largeparty to walk abreast. Here a flight of stairs leadsup to a house of refreshment, styled the Rural Re-treat, twenty feet above the summit of the highfalls, and in a direct line with them—a house thirtyby sixteen, with a well furnished bar, and also aroom for gentlemen and ladies, encircled and shadedby hemlocks and cedars, from the front platform andwindows of which is a full view of the invertedscenery of the falls, of the flat rock below, and ofthe visitors who pass upon it to survey the exhibi-tion above. Here the philosopher and divine maymake their sage remarks and draw their grave con-clusions ; tlie weary rest from their labors, the hun-gry and dry recruit their exhausted spirits ; thesociable of all grades and nations converse freelyand unknown together; the facetious display thecoruscations of their wit, and the cheerful in dispo-sition enjoy the innocent glee of hilarity. Greece,embellished by immortal b
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