TRENTON FALLS.                133
" At the Cascades, the water falls 18 feet. They
consist of 2 pitches with intervening rapids. The
bed of the stream is contracted, and the sides serrat-
ed. The banks of the ravine rise with abruptness
almost directly in the rear. The basin below bas
considerable depth, and is greatly agitated in floods.
" The Mill-dam Fall, which is the seeond within
the ravine, has an abrupt descent of 14 feet. The
stream is about 60 yards broad at the break.
" The High Falls are 40 rods below the latter.
They consist of 3 distinct falls, with intervening
slopes and some small pitches. The first has a per-
pendicular descent of 48 feet ; its Une is somewhat
irregular ; in floods and rises the water covers the
whole break and descends in one sheet ; but at oth-
er times, mostly in two grooves at the west side of
the fall. The stream at this place is about 50 yards
wide. The second has a descent of about 11 feet ;
the third 37 feet ; and the three, including the slopes
and pitches, descend 109 feet. The stream narrows
at the second and third. In freshets and floods, the
entire bed at the High Falls is covered with water
of a milk white color. The spray, which at such
times ascends in pillars towards the sky, when act-
ed upon by the rays of the sun, exhibits the rainbow
in all its brilliant colors.
" The fourth fall is Sherman's. It is distant near-
ly 70 rods from the High Falls. The descent is 33
feet when the stream is low ; and 37 when high.
In droughts, tbe water pitchesdown at the west side.
" The last fall is at Conrad's mills, at the very
foot of the ravine. It is irregular and does not de-
serve to be noticed any further than as being con-
nected with the others    Its descent is 6 feet.
"Besides the falls, there are several raceways or
chutes. We shall notice only two. The one is be-
low Sherman's Fall, and the other above the Cas-
cades. The first begins near the foot of Sherman's
stairway, snd is 14 or 16 feet wide in a decreased
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