The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-06-25
TRENTON FALLS.
Its Wonderful Scenery Makes it
a" Summer Song of
Rest"

nest.
A Sumner Song" attuned TO JOY
And heights of tender bliss,
Which holds about il no alloy
To mar the su1shine's kiss.
So rich and rare the earth and air.
So hemmed with living green,
A Lotus vision wondrous rare
Doth mark each sylvan scene.
In silver rills the water trills
With veice Of happy zest,
And fair, serene, a silver sheen
Doth deck the mountains crest.
Trenton Falls, n. Y, June 21.-
"Trenton," says George William Cur
tbs in bis "Lotus Eating" sis the
summer song of rest. Beauty and
grace are its praises You hear them
from those who are either hurrying to
the grandeur of Niagara, or from
those who step aside to enjoy the
music of the greater cataract softened
into an exquisite echo. The charm
of Trenton is unique, and in some
choice niche of memory you will lay
it aside not as a sublime statue nor
prophetic and solemn picture, but as
a vase most delicate, and chased with
pastoral tracery."
Trenton Falls is situated in the GEN.
trail part of New York State, on the
line of the Rome, Watertown IL Og-
densburg railroad, eighteen miles from
Utica, ninety miles from Thousand
Islands. seventy-four miles froom
WATERFOWL and one hundred and six
teen miles from Ogdensburg. 1t is
reached by four trains each day. The
Falls are part of the West Canaca
creek, which rises in the Adirondack
region and is the principal supply of
the Mohawk river.
In the following exquisite words
Curtis paiuts the scenery: "Poets'
fancies only should image the Falls.
they are so rich and rare a combina-
ton of quiet picturesqueness of beauty
and sense of resistless force in the
running water. You descend from a
lofty wood into long rocky chasm,
which the Germans would call grund,
for it is not valley. 1t is walled
and paved with smooth rocks,
and the thronging forest fringes the
su nmit of the wall. Over this
smooth pavement slips the river in
those long, swift, still, foamless
bounds, which wildly figure the ap-
palling movement of titanic serpent.
The chasms almost closes up the river
and you see foamy cascade. Then,
as if the best beauty and mystery were
beyond, you creep along a narrow
ledge on the rockside of the threat of
the gorge and reach the first large
fall. A slight spray enfolds you as a
baptism in the spirit of the place.
Before you is level parapet of rock,
and the river after sliding very shall
lowly over the broad bed above, con.
centrates and plupges in solid amber
sheet. Close by the side of this you
climb, and pass along the base of the
overhanging mountain, and STOPPING
under the foot of all impending cliff,
stand before the great fall which has
two plunges, long one above, from
which the river sheers oblique:y over
a polished floor of rock aud again
plunges. The river bends here, and
high, square, regular bank projects
from the cliff, smooth as garden ter
race, and perpe,ually yelled and soft
ened by spray. 1t is one
of the most beautiful and
boldest points in the long ravine,
and when the late light of afternoon
falls soft upon it there is a strange
contrast in your feelings as visions of
Boccaccio's garden mingle with the
wilderness of American woods.
"You will recall the European falls
of fame. The thousand Al pine cas-
cades of Switzerland will flicker
through your memory. Slight ava
iances Of snow-dust shimmering into
rainbow mist; and the Rhine will
plunge once more over its little rocky
barrier, sending its murmur far into
the haunted depths of the Black For
est beside you. Or, further on and
fainter still, the rapids of the Nile
and the rills of Lebanon will rush
and gurgle a. you did not dream to
hear them again, nor will you fancy
rest until it sinks in the Oriental lam
guor of the banks of the ALBANIA and
Pharpar, rivers of Damascus"
Thus did Mrs. Kemble describe her
impressions /: Presently We arrived
at the first fall. / can't describe it !;
| don't know either its height or
width | only know it was extremely
beautiful and came pouring dswn like
q great ROLLING bean of amhor The