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Title: Guide-book of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and its several branches and connections : with an account, descriptive and historical, of the places along their route ..
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Coleman, Lyman, 1796-1882
Subjects: Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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throughout the year. It is a striking freak of nature, and reveals picturesof grandeur and magnificence not often excelled. Itscourse is westerly, and the total ascent over 900 feet.It forms the channel for a pure and limpid stream whichfollows its eccentric course over innumerable cascadesand rapids, and through grottoes and ravines, until itempties, near what is known as the Turnhole Bridge,into the Lehigh, the river at this point making, perhaps,the sharpest turn visible along its entire length. At the outset, we come upon the Entrance Cascade and Pool, which, with their bright ripples and foam, and with thehuge banks of rhododendron (when in bloom present-ing a gorgeous appearance) surrounding them, give usat once a most favorable impression of the treasuresembraced within the gorge. For some distance the railroad company have laidwooden pipes for the supply of the water-tank near thedepot. Proceeding a few feet, we arrive at a neat rustic bridge,from which we have a full view of
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CHAMELEON FALLS. (50 FEET HIGH.) Page 176. GLEN ONOKO. 177 Crystal Cascade, whose transparent waters, gurgling over the rocks andglistening in the sunlight, establish their just claim to the name by which they are distinguished. Lookingto our back, down the rocky and leafy arcade, we obtaina very pretty sketch of the river and the bridges cross-ing the Lehigh, including the covered entrance into thetunnel of the Lehigh and Susquehanna Division of theN. J. Central Railroad. Just above, on our left, we come to the cleft Pulpit Rocks, some twenty feet high, standing as stately ushers intothe romantic scenery awaiting us. They are coveredwith delicate moss and ferns, and from their top maybe had a most artistic view of the Mossy Cascade, which comes dashing over the moss-covered rocks intothe pellucid pools below, singing a cheerful welcome to the weary traveler, who, in this sylvan retreat, cannotbut be invigorated by the healthy and refreshing airwith which he is constantly surrounded.We

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