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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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Tree crushed by Frozen Spray. water, for the thousand rills that feed the great lakes have been rent from the hills bythe fierce hand of the Frost-giant, and clank around his waist as a girdle. Those wholove color and light, and majesty of sound, will do well to come in the summer; thosewho like the strange, the fantastic, and the fearful, must come in the winter. But thetrue lover of the picturesque in Nature will come at both times. Each has its specialcharm; each has some things which the other lacks; but in both are features of tran-scendent beauty. TRENTON FALLS. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HARRY FENN.
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Sherman Fall. IV /T ANY persons who visit Niagara from the East make a point of seeing Trenton■^^-^ Falls on their return, as this most picturesque and superb chasm lies almostupon the road, being some fourteen miles from Utica. Could the secret thoughts ofthese be made known, it is not impossible that we might discover a decided preferencefor the less famous place. Our expectations are so wrought up with regard to Niagara,by the praises of poets from every land, and by the efforts of the most famous painters TRENTON FALLS. 453 to translate its glories upon canvas, that, when we first see it, the feeling uppermost is,not unfrequently, one of disappointment, if not absolute dissatisfaction. It is not so withTrenton Falls, where we expect much less, and find, indeed, far more than was expected.And, again, the surroundings of the latter are in every way more pleasant. The ex-change from the infinite extortions and swindlings, and the measureless rapacity of theNiagara cormorants, to th

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