Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — A Wonderful Cliff. [ARTICLE]

A Wonderful Cliff.

Jeffrey’s Cliff,located four miles east of Hawesville, is a natural curiosity and a wonder. It consists of a huge cliff from 200 to 400 feet high all around, and looks as if Providence had set a huge boulder down on the face of the earth. There is a soil on the top of it from ten to thirty feet deep, and before it was partially cleared off a heavy growth of timber adorned it. There is probably more than a hundred acres of good land on top of it. Nature left no way for a man with modern vehicle to go up it, but at an expense of hundreds of dollars a wagon-way has been cut through the solid rock and the dirt graded up to meet it. In two other places footpaths have been provided for the lone traveler. On this wonderful natural production the towns of Cloverport Cannelton, Hawesville and probably others can be plainly seen, as well as a large scope of surrounding country. Cattle in the bottom look like mere midgets, and one’s head swims with the dizziness of the height when buzzards, which make the cliff their roosting place, sail half way down the sides of “Salt Peter Cave,” and other points of interest make up its peculiar wonders. There is an aperture in the cliff on one side, about a foot wide, that sends out the year round a cold breeze. The warmest, sultriest day that can be imagined in August, this constant flow of cold air greets the sightseer. It sits in the middle of the upper bottom, and the Ohio river curves more than half way round it at a distance of a mile and a half away. Truly this is a home wonder.—[Hancock (Ky.) Clarion.