Two Hundred Miles On The Delaware River A Canoe Cruise From Its Headwaters To The Falls At Trenton With An Historical Appendix PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...as best we could until through. From shore to shore the current swept resistless, apparently of uniform depth, broken and riffied from countless causes. Ve dubbed it Lost Channel Rift. During the day's journey the channel led us under immense rocky cliffs, rising first from one side of the river and then from the other, the Pennsylvania side, however, being the more precipitous. Scraggly pine trees covered the hillside. Mongaup Falls 37 The rifts we found very shallow, and with sharp descents, winding up at the foot in chop cross-currents with turbulent waves. Thus we traveled, encountering in some places two or three descents in quick succession. The bends, too, were sharper and more frequent. At ten o'clock we were skirting the canal wall at Pond Eddy. just beyond the village, Allen obtained a fine picture, the rock-bound ending of a rolling mountain range. Two miles further down the river, and we heard a heavy booming that caused us to train our eye-sight ahead. In the distance we could see a narrow, rocky channel, down which the foam-lashed volume poured with such force that waves six feet in height were formed. And this is Mongaup Falls. It is not long, but it is very juicy, what there is of it, and, as the boy said, there is lots of it, such as it is. The river and town of the same name lay on the right. Our experience at this point proved a rough teacher. Ve had grown so familiar with "rifts " that we welcomed them merely as helps in our journey. Ve had as yet no thought of recurring to our lap covers, not having met with currents sufficiently heavy to swamp us. However, we were destined to grow familiar with sterner things. The heavier body of water obliterated the rifts, and falls were now to engage our combined tact...