"It is small wonder that this gill, or gorge, has been named Dungeon. It seems like an entrance to some dark, damp, underground cell where shackled unfortunates might be cast to suffer slow death. But the ribbon of waterfall, holding a glint of sunshine, turns the mind to the more cheerful contemplations of hope and beauty and life. This fall is really romantically situated in the narrow gorge, hemmed in by vertical walls, and makes a perpendicular descent of about 70 feet. Above the fall is a curious natural bridge formed by two rocks firmly wedged between the sides of the ravine. This gorge is the best starting point for the ascent of the two Langdale Peaks which are 2323 feet and 2401 feet in height."
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Valleys through which glaciers pass are widened and deepened, and their walls made smoother. The deepening of a mountain valley by glacial erosion sometimes brings about a curious relation between it and its tributaries. The lower ends of the tributary valleys are much higher than the valleys which they join. Such valleys are called hanging valleys. They abound in the mountains of the western part of the United States, and in other mountains where glaciers formerly existed. The tributary may be left hanging, because the main valley is deepened by glacial erosion, while the tributary is not; or in some cases both the main and the tributary valley are deepened, but the former much more than the latter."
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The Wairua Falls, " the Niagara of New Zealand", is fifty feet high and about two hundred feet wide. The rocky gorge below the falls is verdurous [SIC] on either side with native vegetation, and the river bed is piled high with masses of great Kauri logs. floated down from the upriver forest, on their way to the Wairoa mills. The logs lie here jammed in wild confusion, until swept down by floods; on the very verge of the falls are perched--in the summer time--more logs. stranded until the winter floods send them hurling over the precipice into the whirlpool below. During a flood the falls present a magnificent spectacle. "
"Oregon's highest waterfall, Multnomah Falls, is located only 30 miles east of Portland. The falls which was first discovered by Lewis & Clark during their expedition in 1805, tumbles to the floor of the Columbia River Gorge in two levels. A foot bridge crosses the falls at the top of the lower level. The trail continues on to the top of the falls. The Multnomah Falls area is one of the favorite stopping places for travelers using Interstate Highway 84, Multnomah County." Oregon Department of Transportation Photo 7884