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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ingly named. The one on the Pennsylvania side is Minsi, in memory of the Indians,who made the Minisink their hunting-ground. The opposing more rugged and rockycliff in New Jersey bears the name of Tammany, the chief of chiefs, who clasped handsin solemn covenant with William Penn under the elm-tree of Shackamaxon. 96 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. The ruggedness of the narrow defile is seen in the sketch of the entrance. Thebold face of Tammany exhibits vast, frowning masses of naked rock, while the densely-wooded Minsi displays a thicket of evergreen, with the railway-track skirting it downby the waters edge. Mount Tammany defies ascent except by a vigorous climber, butthe bold and distinct stratification shown in the great rocky mass called the IndianLadder adds to the grand abruptness of the outlines, and from the narrow mountain-top is best beheld the wide, extended view of the magnificent scenery above the Gap. Mount Minsi owes its sweeter beauty to the lovely streams of water that descend
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Distant View of the Gap. its sides beneath a dense foliage, which veils the mossy pools and fern-draped cascadesfrom the sunlight into the cool twilight that enraptures the summer tourist. Successive ledges, or geological steps, mark the face of Minsi, and upon the lowestof these, at nearly two hundred feet above the river, stands the old and well-knownhotel— Kittatinny House, that on a rock is founded,So, when floods come, the folks wont be drownded. The stream that issues beneath the hotel, to fall in a cascade into the river, hascome down the mountain-side through a dark ravine. The densest bordering of rhododen-drons fringes its sides with dark foliage and lovely blossoms, while tall trees complete THE DELAWARE WATER-GAP. 97 the shade. Far up the ascent it takes its rise in the Hunters Spring, whose cool mar-gin has long been known as a welcome resting-place to the sportsmen that sought deeralong the range. Under the name of Caldeno Creek, it continues its downward courseby casc

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