Photograph of the Palouse Canyon below the falls, in eastern Washington. Basalt cliffs line the canyon walls and the Palouse River winds its way down to join the Snake River.
Photograph looking down on the Palouse Falls in eastern Washington. The falls have a height of approximately 196 ft. Basalt cliffs line the canyon surrounding the falls.
"The Peluse (Palouse) River flows over three steppes, each of which is estimated to have an ascent of a thousand feet. The falls descend from the middle of the lower of these steppes." "The fall of the water, which is about thirty...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Palouse River (Wash.); Mountains
The Peluse (Palouse) River "has its source in the main ridge of the Bitter Root" Mountains, "and flows in nearly a straight course through a valley some twenty miles wide," bearing north "through a country densely timbered...