Excerpt from Early History, the Village of Havana

From a description published a short time since, a glimpse of the celebrated ravine is presented in an inter esting and intelligent manner. As we enter the Glen, the Portal Cascade first appears in view. Here the water of mcclure's Creek makes its final plunge into the basin of Seneca Lake. Passing along the narrow path-way we will next take our stand upon Sylvan Bridge that spans the stream above the first falls, and gaze for a time upon the beauties of Glen Montour, as the first section is called. Pursuing our course, the Eagle Cliff Falls appear in view. These are the highest in the Glen, the unbroken fall of water being about fifty feet. The cliffs tower above the summit of the falls to a height of more than one hundred feet, rendering the scene peculiarly sublime and impres sive. By ascending the oak stairway, the second subdivision of the Glen, The Pride of the Senecas, opens to our view. The stream appears to emerge from a spacious room in the form of an L. The main passage is sixty feet in length and about twenty-five feet in width, and the aver age height of the sides about thirty feet. From different stand-points in this section of the Glen we obtain views that are exceedingly beautiful and rarely equaled. We can not stop to describe the beauties of the Curtain Cascade or the wild and rugged scenery of Central Gorge, as viewed from the winding stair-way. This Gorge varies in depth from fifty to one hundred feet. Leaving it and crossing on the Cavern Bridge, located at the entrance of the Glen of the Caverns, we will pursue our way, taking a view of Hermit's Cave and the Whispering Falls, as we pass along to Glen Chaos, where the rocks appear to have slid down into the ravine from its adjacent sides, and here lie imbedded in one chaotic mass. The Glen of the Echoes, and Echo Falls, will beguile us for a time ere we reach the Glen of the Pools. Here are numerous cavities, vary ing in size and shape, some of them circular and very beautiful. Passing the Fairies' Cascade and the Summit Falls, we emerge to the highlands which overlook Seneca Lake. In taking the reader through the Glen, we have done little more than to give the names of some of the principal localities, all of which are suggestive, and must now leave him to visit the Glen, and see for himself the work of the Almighty's hand.

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