2-752-480 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Profile Rock', 1874. Rock formation on the Mohawk River, New York State, USA. 'But there are witnesses still extant of what the waters did in the remote past; for here is Profile Rock, where the hard stone has been so mauled, and had its stratification so handled, that the very fair likeness to a human profile has been washed out...the Profile Rock is one of the institutions of the place; and the stranger within the gates who should, out of pure "cussedness", refuse to see any resemblance to the human visage, would be considered very impolite, to say the least of it'. 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]