2-752-678 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Part of High Fall', 1872. Waterfall on the West Canada Creek, New York State, USA - wooden steps for tourists have been built on the left. 'The water here rushes over a ledge of rocks, which stretch from bank to bank diagonally, with a full height of seventy-five feet'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. I, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1872]