pe of a gouge, and in the most perfect manner;
and as one looks upon it in all its grandeur, but without the presence
of the cause by which it was formed, he can scarcely divest his mind
of the impression that he is gazing upon some stupendous work of art.

Returning to the present brook, we again pursued our way toward the
fall, but had not advanced far before we arrived at another, on the
left hand side of the brook, similar in many respects, but much larger
and higher than the one above mentioned. The forming agent cannot be
mistaken, when a careful survey is made of either of these stupendous
perpendicular troughs. The span is considerably wider at the bottom
than at the top, this result being produced by the spreading of the
sheet of water as it was precipitated from the dizzy height above. The
breadth of this one is about twenty feet at the bottom, and its depth
about fourteen feet. But its depth and span gradually diminish from
the bottom to the top, and the rock is worn as smooth as if chiselled
by the hand of an artist. Moss and small plants have sprung out from
the little soil that has accumulated in the crevices, but not enough
to conceal the rock from observation. It would be an object worth the
toil to discover what has turned the stream from its original channel.

Leaving this singular curiosity, we pursued our way a few yards
farther, when we arrived at the fall. This is from eighty to one
hundred feet high, and the water is compressed into a very narrow
space just where it breaks forth from the rock above. It is quite
a pretty sheet of water when the stream is high. We learned from
the natives that there are two falls above this, both of which are
shut out from the view from below, by a sudden turn in the course
of the stream. The perpendicular height of each is said to be much
greater than of the one we saw. The upper one is visible from the
road on the seashore, which is more than two miles distant, and,
judging from information obtained, must be between two and three
hundred feet high. The impossibility of climbing the perpendicular
banks from below deprived us of the pleasure of farther ascending the
stream toward its source. This can be done only by commencing at the
plain and following up one of the lateral ridges. This would itself
be a laborious and fatiguing task, as the way would be obstructed by
a thick growth of trees and tangled underbrush.

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