Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0426Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of the walls of a canyon covered in vegitation, a stream flows along the canyon floor with a small waterfall carrying the water to a lower portion of the canyon, a wooden staricase is seen traveling between the race faces. Above the image "95" is printed, below the image "V23285 - Fairy Cascade, Watkins Glen, New York." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Portland, Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
V23285
Fairy Cascade, Watkins Clen, N. Y.
Lat. 42 (Degrees) N.; Long. 77 (Degrees) W.
Sehuyler (pronunciation) County, New York, in the northern part, abounds in picturesque lakes, glens, ravines, and mineral springs, among the most noted of which are Glen Springs and Watkins Slgn. The latter is located in the part of the state, at the end of Seaecan Lake, about a mile from the village of Watkins, the county seat. It was purchased by the state in December 1906, for $46,512.50 and made into a free state park or reservation.
The rock formation of Watkins Glen is so characteristic and shows such marked variation as to make it an interesting study. The shale strata (pronunciation) or layers of rock are separated at irregular intervals by thin beds of sandstone, which resist both the weather and the wear from water better than the shale. In the bed of the stream the resistance of the sandsonte is even more marked, and is a determining cause for most of the falls and rapids. As this stream cuts more reaily into the shale, it forms a steep slope between the sandstone strata, down which it leaps in beautifu cascades and falls. Here we see a single fall becasue the sandstone layer is fairly thick.
The northern half of North America was once covered with great sheets of ice. The melting of these glaciers left many scattered rocks and an uneven surface of the earth. Strreams flowed over a new land. They have not been at work long enough to smooth out the uneve places which a difference in the hardness of the rocks caused. The glen throughout is one of great beauty. the cascades with which it is filled have each some special feature which we admire; yet all show the same style in formation and the same rocky ledges through which the waters have worn their way.
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