Descriptive and illustrated guide book of the famous Watkins Glen, a New York reservation, located at Watkins, Sehuyler Co., N.Y. (head of Seneca Lake) (1916) (14784163342)

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Title: Descriptive and illustrated guide book of the famous Watkins Glen, a New York reservation, located at Watkins, Sehuyler Co., N.Y. (head of Seneca Lake)
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Hope, J. D. (James Douglas), 1846-1929, comp
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Publisher: (Buffalo, New York, etc., The Matthews-Northrup works c1916)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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Pools The next section, Glen of the Pools, so named from the number ot rocky basins itcontains, and from its upper end Rainbow Falls and Triple Cascade bursts upon our view. C 27 ) Rainbow Falls and Triple Cascade Rainbow Falls is the most celebrated and longest remem-bered of all the varied and beautiful scenes of this wonderfulplace. The combination of the three cascades in the stream,coupled with the veil that trickles from the southern cliff,falling over the rocky path that leads behind the spray,probably has no duplicate in the world, and once seen it isindelibly impressed on the brain never to be effaced whilereason sits enthroned. The brilliant rainbows seen fromvarious points, as it is illuminated by the sunlight stream-ing into the gorge, are responsible for its name, and inpassing the spray several are disclosed by looking throughit, and from the bridge above a look back will frequentlydiscover one. In winter, ice formations at this point blockall attempts at travel. ( 28 2
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Rainbow Falls and Triple Cascade ( 29 )