2-752-549 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Cape Horn', 1872. Basalt cliff outcrop on the Columbia River, Washington, USA: 'Majestic ramparts, like Cape Horn, rose, a vast, columnar wall, sometimes seven hundred feet in height'. 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. I, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1872]