Baker's Falls (No. 8 of The Hudson River Portfolio)

"situated within a mile of the beautiful village of Sandy Hill [now Hudson Falls]...their total height...estimated at upwards of seventy feet...There is no perpendicular cataract, neither do the waters rush over such regular and massive platforms as at Glen's Falls: a long ledge of rock crosses the fall about midway, which breaks the main body of the torrent, and scatters it into a variety of picturesque forms and directions...The best view of them is obtained from the foot of the rocks, and descent to which is, in many respects, calculated to deter the traveller, except him who, disdaining superficial views of the wonders of nature, pursues them through all varieties of toil and difficulty."