Identifier: americapicturesq02cook (find matches)
Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel, 1842-1910
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel Canada -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : John C. Winston
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rsouthward through the deep valley. This structureis flanked by the North and South University build-ings, each one hundred and sixty-live feet long, allthree substantially constructed of dark blue stonewith light gray limestone trimmings. There are alsothe Sibley Building, and the magnificent CascadillaHall, nearly two hundred feet long, which is a resi-dence for instructors and students. The Sage Col-lege for females and other handsome buildings adornthe campus, including an armory, for everything istaught, and a battery of mounted cannon guards theapproach to the grounds. HAVANA AND WATKINS GLENS. Seneca Lake, the largest of the group, is a shortdistance west of Cayuga, and its prolonged southernvalley is bordered by ridges rising even higher,through which the streams have carved remarkablegorges. Two of the larger torrents coming into theprolonged Seneca Valley have hewn out of the hill-sides, one on either hand, romantic fissures of widerenown,—the Havana and Watkins Glens. The
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NFW YORKARY . AND L HAVANA AND WATKINS GLENS. 363 Havana Glen is three miles south of the lake andabout a mile long, being cut out of the eastern Availof the vallej. The ravine is steep, having quite alarge stream. Its characteristic is that the water andfrost have made great fissures and caverns, but sofashioned them that all the joints and corners areright-angles. The cascades are successions of ledges,the water apparently running down a staircase. Ifthe stream runs over a waterfall, it comes from a levelledge as if running over a wall. If it rushes througha gorge, all the corners are squaie, the sides perpen-dicular and the bottom level. If a brigade of stone-masons had built the place it could hardly have beenmore accurately constructed. Several of the cas-cades are magnificent, the Bridal Veil and the Curtain Falls going down a maze of rocky ledges,their frothy waters making resplendent sheets of ex-quisite lace work. In one place the stream flowsthrough a perfectly square grotto

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