Repository: UIHistories Project: Sophograph - 1889 [PAGE 41]

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woods back past the cascade to a steep path leading to the bottom of the upper len. Picking our steps carefully we arrive at the bottom of a gorge smaller but milar to the lower glen. Following down the brook, sometimes walking on the smooth mossy rock and again clambering along the vertical side clinging to vines, roots and gains cut in the rock, we come.to the opening. From this place we get the most comprehensive view that is possible of the park. We are standing about JO feet from the cascade. At our feet the brook drops down 6 or 7 feet into a kind of cistern worn by the falling water in the layer of rock below. This overflowing, the water again drops down into another cistern similar to the first. It is only after having passed into these two cisterns that the water is permitted to take its final leap into the lower glen. Looking out between the rocky abutments at the opening into the lower glen, we see over the edge of the precipice a part of the lake on the right, the opening of one of the caves and Sentinel Rock, and on the left a part of one cavern with the floor covered with drifts of snow white sand. In the distance the turn in the gorge closes the scene and prevents our seeing the cave stable and the lodge just beyond. As seen from this place, standing just above the upper cistern, the Park presents to the eye a scene of strange beauty, and we would linger here but for the fact that new beauties still await us in the glen behind us. Even the cascade refuses to break the enchantment of the place for it glides over the smooth mossy rock so quietly and is received so easily below that not a murmur escapes it, only a gentle musical ripple as it glides into the lake below. Behind us the upper glen extends for some distance gradually coming out to the surlace. Though not so picturesque as the lower glen, it is much richer in beauty. W i have neither the time nor the power to describe all the magnificent ferns, the delicate and curious mosses, the festoons of vines and ivies drooping gracelully from the trees overhead, the strange grotesque figures in the rock, the beautiful clusters of flowering shrubs standing out in bold relief against the gray surfa< of the rock. Such things must be seen to be fully appreciated. Getting back to the lodge we will take a rapid glance at Cold Water Glen This is a small glen extending back from the lodge bout 50 et, and endinin a cascade similar to the one at the end of the lower division of the Park Here springs abound, some of which are said to be of rare medicinal value, not less than four of them close together each differing from its nc hbor. The day now bring well toward its rU we must pr< ue tor the returi

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