The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-05-03
The NARRoWs.

J. T. Boyett showed me the mouth
of the Narrows 1t was the place
where the stream entered. I was tired
and | took a seat on pine stump to
look at them thoroughly and drink
in the beauties of what | have been
informed is one of the most interest
! ing. canons in Arkansas. South of me
the tops of the trees are all level as
| though they grew in a valley, but
from what I can see it is not level
velley beneath them. Beyond is a
semi-circular mountain. The mouth
of the canon is V shaped and if you
had not been informed differently you
would swear the stream is coming out
instead of going in. On either side a
bluff of rocks reaches down to the
bottom. They dip together like a vast
letter Y with the stream flowing into
the lower part of the V. Now l am
going to start through it and see if
the water really does flow into it. 1t
reminds me of Earth's Drink in the
"Khyber Rifles"
At the top, on the right hand bluff,
there is what appears to be the well
smoked mouth of cave, but as it is
p. m. I have not the time to eX-
plore it. On my left are vast over
| hanging rock tinted brown with hem
attic iron ore. I cross to a rock in
! the middle of the stream and as I
look at the vast pile of rock to my
! left it appears to be over 100 feet
| high. Below me the creek crosses a
| ledge of rock twenty feet wide. I
| have stepped across it from the left
bank to the rock I am on and one
more step will be on d large oblong
rock which it runs over barely COW
ering it, then there is an exceedingly.
/ swift stream feet wide and I will be
on the other bank. Then I go up to
the base of the bluff on the right to
peer into cavity which looked like
a cave. l also take time to pluck a
pretty white flower off a bush and
/ place it to my nostrils to see if it is
not a wild Cape Jasmine, but it has no
/ odor.
Down over the ledge the water
/ L L
not time to battle in it. Then the
bank to the right assumes a gradual
slope interspersed with large rough
rock, but the left bank slopes up
gradually, short distance to solid
rock and then becomes perpendicular.
At the same time a solid rock PENN
sula shoots out into the stream,
where it ends the rock continues
across, the water running over it in a
beautiful waterfall.
A large rock has been broken. 1t is
yellow on the outside, but looks like
lime on the inside.
The water from the falls runs diago-
| nally across a small pool until it
strikes the opposite bank then the
stream runs like a mill race in a,
channel six to ten feet wide for a
hundred feet down a sharp incline
where the channel turns. There are
two cedars at my back and two small
pines on the opposite or left bank up
at the foot of the perpendicular bluff
and cedar half way uD it.
Down where the stream turns to the
right it runs due east for about two
hundred feet The descent is faster
and che channel has narrowed until
it is barely thee feet wide in places.
At other places the incline is not SO
great and the water widens out to
eight or ten feet Oh! with what a
rush it goes through the narrow place.
II i,,ya,pc Of +irooc two foot nm oithor
bank, then it strikes rocks and curls,
it shoots from one side to the other.
| My; what pretty combersi Just at
the end it strikes a big rock and
jumps over it in a beautiful cascade
four or five feet. The wind follows
down the canon cool and bracing.
From high up the bluff rock have fall
len and struck the rock I am on
| across on the right side and have
smashed to pieces such beautiful
sight, such sweet murmurings ] wish
I could stay and hear the story it
could tell of the past 100000 years
Here where this narrow ceases end
the high perpendicular bluffs on the
left and on top of it at this point is
vast overhanging rock ready to fall
The stream now angles to the south
east and then to the northeast Where
it curves back to the northeast is
vast pile of rock on the right side
all scanned and Grated with crystals.
Crystal hunters, probably. have been
blasting 1t away. There is a pile of
black earth and rubbish here full of
broken crystals This if cleared away,
showing the white crystal coated
rocks twenty feet high, would be
beautiful sight A crevice runs back
into the rock several feet and at the
top is what looks like the opening of
a cave. Then this rock juts out into
the stream and the water falls
through another narrow chute into a
long pool with a drift across the end
because the timber men have here
he to- ,