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Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 78 (part 3)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Katarakts Kil, as it is met of record--now Judge Benson's Kauter Kil--is formed by the outlets of two small lakes lying west of the well-known Mountain House. A little below the lakes the united streams leap over a ledge and fall 175 feet to a shelf of rock, and a few rod's below fall 85 feet to a ravine from which they find their way to the Kat's Kil. Beautiful are the falls and appropriate is the ancient name "The Kil of the Kataracts." Compare it, please, with Judge Benson's "He cat kil."