. The Pacific tourist . e-waters, a rare fer-tility is developed in the ravines opening uponthe shore of the canon. A luxuriance of fernsand mosses, an almost tropical wealth of greenleaves and velvety cai-peting line the are no rocks at the base of the fall. Thesheet of foam plunges almost vertically into adark, beryl-green, lake-like expanse of the volumes of foam roll up from the cata-ract-base, and, whirling about in the eddyingwinds, rise often a thousand feet into the the wind blows down the canon, a graymist obscures the river for half a mile; andwhen,
. The Pacific tourist . e-waters, a rare fer-tility is developed in the ravines opening uponthe shore of the canon. A luxuriance of fernsand mosses, an almost tropical wealth of greenleaves and velvety cai-peting line the are no rocks at the base of the fall. Thesheet of foam plunges almost vertically into adark, beryl-green, lake-like expanse of the volumes of foam roll up from the cata-ract-base, and, whirling about in the eddyingwinds, rise often a thousand feet into the the wind blows down the canon, a graymist obscures the river for half a mile; andwhen, as is usually the case in the afternoon, thebreezes blow eastward, the foam-cloud curls overthe brink of the fall, and hangs like a veil overthe upper river. The incessant roai, reinforcedby a thousand echoes, fills the canon. From outthis monottme, from time to time, rise strange,wild sounds, and now and then may be heard aslow, measured beat, not unlike the recurring fallof breakers. From the white front of the cata-.
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