The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-07-22

thrown together, so that they resemble ROY
of ships prows, closely moored side by side
all pointing up stream, and though the mast
and rigging ale wanting the resemblance i
complete, the view grand and impressive
Beyond the navy yard, on the opposite side
hanging over the boiling torrent, screened b.
beautiful foliage oc crevice.grown trees ant
bushes, is BLACK Hawks Cave" Here. it Il
SAID, when the fortunes of war we're agains
him and his glory as chieftain was waning
Black Hawk laughed at his pursuers unit
treachery exposed the place of his conceal
ment and he was taken prisoner. Whether
there is any truth in the statement or not an
not able to say, but the cave is here, all the
same! "The Devils Elbow" "Notch Rock, u
BOAT Cave" and Rattle Snake Rock" are
something like their names, but of no grea,
importance other than their magnitude and
formations. AT
GOLD WATER CONON"
the steamer makes landing, and the passengers
take walk of half mile or so up the gorge.
For some distance the path winds between
high walls whose altitude in some places Is
over two hundred feet and which almost meet
at the top A murmuring stream OF cool wa.
ter flows over its rocky bed, above which the
overhanging rocks are covered with ferns,
MOSES and other foliage. Through occasion
al openings and dark, tortuous windings we
pass on, stopping now and then 10 examine
some of the curious arches, curves and water
carvings of the canon, when presently the
sides open and we find ourselves in
THE DEVILS Jug"
This is u most peculiar freak OF nature,
acarcely susceptible of description, from its
singular formation. Of course it is broken,
and like our Ottawa jug, as easy to get out of
as 1t is to get IN, but this is u strange, weird,
and circular like chamber, some fifteen feet
at the bottom, with waterstaIned, mosscovered
sides, towering upwards about forty feet, con.
tracing and closing at the top, in the form of
a Jug the tall pines and thick foliage keeping
the upper part in Il sort of Il twilight gloom.
Once more on board the boat we steam
round bends and reach the "Narrows," where
The river is only fifty feet wide and the water
said to be over one hundred feet deep. THE
Devils Arm Chair" Steamboat Rock"
'Ruflle Rock" Eagle Point" Paradise"
and various other peculiar shaped formations
are passed. Then comes the sharks Head"
yaunt, savage,looking, protuberances from the
)ank wickedly waiting for something to
rush against their vicious fronts. After
which CLAN Banks" a series Of rocks that
ook in shape like the great oyster shells hung
o be the mummies of giant progenitors of
,lr shell fish. Hundreds of other formations
occupy the attention on the journey, and
lnally the browning scenic glory of the Dels
s reached IN
THE WITCHES GULCH."
Here we make a landing, and following a
ootway that leads around the face of bold,
Ocay promontory, along the bank OF Il little
lvulet, we reach the satanic wildness of the
Witches Gulch. A short walk through a
lark passage, from which the light of day is
III but excluded, only reeping IN at the top
'etween crevlces of great tapping rocks, to
Phantom Chamber" wherein the lights and
hadows play In gauish sports, aud where the
orce OF the elements has produced q style of
architecture only agreeable to phantoms or
he gods, Here Imagination may reasonably
'elieve she Of Endor, with all her COLLINS Of
he damned, may have lived OF yore or the
ecret, black and midnight hays OF Macbeth
nay have concocted their hell.broth, and pre-
JARED for deed without name. Dark, deep
nd dismal IS this den, within which one sees
On either side the rugged rocks uplift,
And heaven scarce enters through the narrow
rift" Il
j. d. H. Is