2-752-442 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'High Banks, Portage', 1874. Waterfall in the Genesee River gorge at Portage, New York State, USA. 'A second and more hazardous pathway leads from these rocky observatories to the base of this the last of the Portage falls; and the course of the river now lies deep down in its rock-enclosed limits, until the broad valley is reached. To this rocky defile the general name of High Banks is given...'. 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. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]