Delaware Water-Gap, from the South

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The Delaware Water Gap is a deep notch cut through Kittatinny Ridge where the Delaware River forces its way between Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and this view looks at it from the south. Gaps like this one drew artists and travelers in the early 19th century, when the Delaware valley was still a route for rafts, canal boats and stagecoaches heading toward the Poconos and beyond. Wood and steel engravings of the gap were widely circulated in that period, so a view taken from this side would have been among the scenes that shaped how Americans pictured their own landscape. Look at how the steep wooded slopes frame the river, which is the feature that gave the place its name.

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