The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . CHAPTER LITTLE more than tAVO miles from the MountainHouse, by a rough road, is an immense gorgescooped from the rugged hills, into which poursthe gentle outlet of the little Katers-Kill lakes, ina fall first of one hundred and seventy-five feet,and close to it another of eighty feet. The fallshave been so well described by the Leather-stocking (Natty Bumpo), that a betterpicture cannot be drawn :—Theres a place, said Natty, after describing the view fromthe Platform Eock at the Mountain House, that in late times Irelished better than the mount
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . CHAPTER LITTLE more than tAVO miles from the MountainHouse, by a rough road, is an immense gorgescooped from the rugged hills, into which poursthe gentle outlet of the little Katers-Kill lakes, ina fall first of one hundred and seventy-five feet,and close to it another of eighty feet. The fallshave been so well described by the Leather-stocking (Natty Bumpo), that a betterpicture cannot be drawn :—Theres a place, said Natty, after describing the view fromthe Platform Eock at the Mountain House, that in late times Irelished better than the mountains, for it was more kivered by thetrees, and more nateral. And where was that? inquired Edwards. Why, theres a fall in the hills, where the water of two little ponds,that lie near each other, breaks out of their bounds, and runs over therocks into the valley. The stream is, may be, such a one as would turna mill, if so useless a thing was wanted in the wilderness. But the handthat made that Leap never made a mill! There the water comescrooking and w
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