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Kurt
Mohicanite
USA
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September 27 2003
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 Posted - November 10 2003 : 6:09:11 PM
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“Why, there’s a fall in the hills where the water of two little ponds.
that lie near each other, breaks out of their bounds and runs over the
rocks into the valley. The stream is, maybe, such a one as would turn
a mill, if so useless thing was wanted in the wilderness. But the
hand that made that ‘Leap’ never made a mill. There the water comes
crooking and winding among the rocks, first so slow that a trout could
swim in it, and then starting and running like a creatur’ that wanted
to make a far spring, till it gets to where the mountain divides, like
the cleft hoof of a deer, leaving a deep hollow for the brook to
tumble into. The first pitch is nigh two hundred feet, and the water
looks like flakes of driven snow afore it touches the bottom; and
there the stream gathers itself together again for a new start, and
maybe flutters over fifty feet of flat rock before it falls for
another hundred, when it jumps about from shelf to shelf, first
turning this-away and then turning that-away, striving to get out of
the hollow, till it finally comes to the plain.”
Kaaterskill Falls as described in "The Pioneers" by J F Cooper
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