The home book of the picturesque, or, American scenery, art, and literature : comprising a series of essays by Washington Irving, W.C. Bryant, Fenimore Cooper, Miss Cooper, N.P. Willis, Bayard Taylor, H.T. Tuckerman, E.L. Magoon, Dr. Bethune, A.B. Street, Miss Field, etc., with thirteen engravings on steel, from pictures by eminent artists, engraved expressly for this work (1852)
New York : G.P. Putnam · leaf 207
, like a frinoe,a few inches in height, whilst the gorge itself is piled with rocks uponwhich grow trees of fifty feet. It is a sublime cathedral of nature, whose stillness awes the soul,and whose voice, supplied by the storm, hft a tremendous anthem tothe God whose wonderful power was employed in… … SCAROON OR SCHROON LAKE. (cole.) The engraving represents one of the wildest and most beautifulLakes in the State of New York, and probably in the United States.It is situated partly in the counties of Warren and Essex, is nine mileslong and aljout one mile wide. The view is taken from an island…
