This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...scenery as that, of which we were lost in admiration, struck me as the very climax of inanity, if inanity can admit of a climax. 1 proposed to my friend I-y that we should christen, anew, these old ' Buttermilk Falls, 'the seats of so much beautiful and romantic scenery. Several names were suggested between us, none of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...scenery as that, of which we were lost in admiration, struck me as the very climax of inanity, if inanity can admit of a climax. 1 proposed to my friend I-y that we should christen, anew, these old ' Buttermilk Falls, 'the seats of so much beautiful and romantic scenery. Several names were suggested between us, none of which, however, were mutually satisfactory; when, suddenly, a bald eagle, as I thought, --a very large eagle, it certainly was, --darted from beyond the hoary cliff, on the north side of the ravine, and far above its lofty peak. The biped seemed to pause, for a second, over our heads, as though he had taken us for a brace of lambs, and intended to make his next repast upon one or both of us. Thanks to his keen eye, however, he soon discovered his mistake, if he had made one, and flew off in a tangent. The circumstance occurred in the nick of time; for it afforded a name for the falls, ir which we both readily agreed; and henceforth, with the concurrence of the belles and beaux, the poets and sages, of Ithaca, the 'Buttermilk' will assume the name of the ' Eagle Falls!' And here, when 'towering in his pride of flight, ' no 'mousing owl' shall ever bring our eagle down; but, as the emblem of our country's glory, shall he soar or rest, above and around these mighty monuments erected by the hand of Nature's God; unchecked in his sublime career, undisturbed in his lofty eyry, by aught but the hand of his Creator, and his own free will I" The Taghcanick, or Goodwin's Falls, are located on the west side of Cayuga Lake, about ten miles from Ithaca. As you approach it, the creek, at first, exhibits no remarkable features. "But it soon begins to assume the shape of a deep ravine; and, for about half a mile before you reach the eminence which over...
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