2-752-488 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Vicinity of Ithaca', 1874. 'Enfield Falls; Buttermilk Falls; Buttermilk Ravine; Cornell University', New York State, USA. 'Cayuga Lake, in the western cen- tral part of New-York State, is noted for a great number of highly picturesque and beautiful water-falls, found mainly at the head, or southern extremity, of the lake, in the vicinity of the town of Ithaca, famous, not only for its surrounding scenery, but for its distinguished Cornell University'. 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]