Glenns Falls (No. 6 of The Hudson River Portfolio)

Text published with this print tells us that the falls "present to the eye of the spectator immense masses of water, rushing down over broad platforms of rock, in a hundred rival cataracts, and as many different directions...the Hudson in this place, descends, by an almost regular series of capacious steps, forming a variety of cascades of an imposing extent, and of incomparable beauty. The height of the entire fall is estimated at near seventy feet; although, to a superficial observer, this calculation may appear exaggerated, as the number and magnitude of the stoney masses which interrupt the course of the waters, detract considerably from its apparent altitude." This view was taken near a toll bridge that spans the river below the village at Glens Falls, with the Adirondacks visible at the horizon