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                           AMERICAN SCENERY;

                                  OR,

                         LAND, LAKE, AND RIVER

                 ILLUSTRATIONS OF TRANSATLANTIC NATURE.


                    FROM DRAWINGS BY W. H. BARTLETT,

                ENGRAVED IN THE FIRST STYLE OF THE ART,

                                   BY

   R. WALLIS, J. COUSEN, WILLMORE, BRANDARD, ADLARD, RICHARDSON, &c.

                        THE LITERARY DEPARTMENT

                         BY N. P. WILLIS, ESQ.
    AUTHOR OF “PENCILLINGS BY THE WAY”, “INKLINGS OF ADVENTURE” ETC.


                                VOL. II.


                                LONDON:
           G E O R G E   V I R T U E,  26,  I V Y   L A N E.
                                MDCCCXL.




                     LONDON:—RICHARD CLAY, PRINTER,
                           BREAD STREET HILL.




                    CONTENTS AND LIST OF ENGRAVINGS
                             TO VOLUME II.

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_Ch._                                                               _Page_
    1 The Catterskill Falls, from below                                  1
    2 The Catterskill Falls, from above the Ravine                       2
    3 Winter Scene on the Catterskills                                   4
    4 Rogers’ Slide, Lake George                                         7
    5 The Gothic Church, Newhaven                                        9
    6 Niagara Falls from the top of the Ladder on the American side     11
    7 Saw-Mill at Centre Harbour, Lake Winnipiseogee                    12
    8 Little Falls, on the Mohawk                                       14
    9 Bridge at Norwich, Connecticut                                    16
   10 Undercliff, near Cold Spring                                      18
   11 Boston, and Bunker Hill, from the East                            23
   12 Mount Jefferson, from Mount Washington                            25
   13 Mount Tom, and the Connecticut River                              27
   14 The Silver Cascade, in the Notch of the White Mountains           29
   15 View of New York, from Weehawken                                  30
   16 The President’s House from the River                              32
   17 View on the Susquehanna, at Liverpool                             34
   18 Desert Rock Light-house, Maine                                    36
   19 Washington’s House, Mount Vernon                                  38
   20 Village of Little Falls, Mohawk River                             40
   21 Harper’s Ferry, from the Blue Ridge                               42
   22 Barhydt’s Lake, near Saratoga                                     43
   23 Fairmount Gardens, Philadelphia                                   45
   24 Sing-Sing Prison, and Tappan Sea                                  47
   25 Washington, from the President’s House                            49
   26 View of Baltimore                                                 51
   27 The Exchange and Girard’s Bank, Philadelphia                      53
   28 Principal Front of the Capitol, Washington                        55
   29 The Narrows, Lake George                                          57
   30 Natural Bridge, Virginia                                          59
   31 View of the Passaic Falls                                         61
   32 View of Northumberland, on the Susquehanna                        63
   33 Pulpit Rock, White Mountains                                      65
   34 View of Hudson City, and the Catskill Mountains                   67
   35 Scene among the Highlands on Lake George                          69
   36 Schuylkill Water Works, Philadelphia                              71
   37 The United States Bank, Philadelphia                              73
   38 Brock’s Monument, from the American Side                          75
   39 Village of Catskill                                               77
   40 View from Gowanus’ Heights, Brooklyn                              79
   41 View on the Susquehanna, above Owago                              81
   42 Bridge at Glens Fall, on the Hudson                               84
   43 View from Mount Ida, near Troy                                    85
   44 View from Glenmary Lawn, on the Owago                             87
   45 View near Anthony’s Nose, Hudson Highlands                        90
   46 Washington’s Monument, Baltimore                                  92
   47 East Port, and Passamaquoddy Bay                                  94
   48 Cemetery of Mount Auburn                                          97
   49 Northampton, Massachusetts                                        98
   50 Chapel of our Lady of Coldspring                                 100
   51 The Mountain House, on the Catskills                             102
   52 Faneuil Hall, from the Water                                     104




                           AMERICAN SCENERY.




[Illustration: The Catterskill Falls, from below.]




[Illustration]
                         THE CATTERSKILL FALLS.
                        (FROM ABOVE THE RAVINE)

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From the precipice whence our first view of this Fall is taken, the
descent is steep and slippery to the very brink of the torrent, which it
is necessary to cross on the wild blocks which lie scattered in its
rocky bed. From thence, literally buried in forest foliage, the tourist
will enjoy a very different, but, perhaps, more striking and picturesque
view than the other. The stream, at a vast height above him, is seen
leaping from ledge to ledge—sometimes lost, sometimes sparkling in
sunshine, till it courses impetuously beneath the rock on which he is
seated, and is lost in the deep unbroken obscurity of the forest. The
rocky ledges above, worn by time, have the appearance of deep cavern