=Rise.=—If after being base-leveled, or notably reduced by erosion, a region is uplifted so as to increase the gradients and therefore the velocities of the streams which drain it, the streams are said to be _rejuvenated_, and a new cycle of erosion is begun. If the rise of the area were equal everywhere, while the coast line remained constant in position, there would be an immediate increase in velocity only at the debouchures of the streams flowing directly into the sea. At the debouchures of such streams there would be rapids or falls. Each rapids or falls would promptly recede, and with the recession, the acceleration of velocity resulting from the uplift would be felt farther and farther up-stream, and ultimately to its source. The rejuvenated streams would cut new valleys in the bottoms of their old ones (Figs. 152 and 153). The new valleys would begin where the increase in velocity was first felt, and they would be lengthened by head erosion just as valleys of the first cycle were lengthened. [Illustration: +Fig.+ 152.—Cross-section of a wide valley, _ab_, in the bottom of which a younger valley, _cd_, has been excavated as the result of uplift.] [Illustration: +Fig.+ 153.—Diagram to illustrate in ground plan an ideal case of rejuvenation as the result of uplift.] When the head of the new part of a valley of a rejuvenated stream recedes past the mouth of a tributary adjusted[58] to the gradient of the main stream before rejuvenation, the velocity of the tributary is accelerated at its debouchure, and it begins to excavate a new valley in the bottom of its old one. The new valley commences at the lower end of the old one, and develops headward (_a_ and _b_, Fig. 153). Good illustrations are furnished by the streams in the west central part of New Jersey. The Delaware has here a sharply defined valley, and its tributaries are essentially as deep as their main at the point of junction. Above this point they have high gradients for a short distance (three to six miles), beyond which they wind sluggishly in wide valleys with low gradients across a relatively high plateau. Their profiles are illustrated by Fig. 154. The flat, though high, surface in which their upper courses lie, appears to have been nearly base-leveled in an earlier cycle, and then to have been elevated. The date of the elevation is fixed, in terms of erosion, by the time necessary for the excavation of the Delaware gorge, and the narrow gorges along the lower courses of its tributaries. It was so recent that the effects of rejuvenation, proceeding from the debouchures of the tributaries toward their heads, have not yet advanced far from the Delaware. Similar relations are found elsewhere (Fig. 1, Pl. XIII, s. c. Col.). Another peculiarity of rejuvenated drainage is shown in Fig. 2, Plate XIII (s. Kan.). Here Elm Creek flows at a level 200 feet below that of Sand Creek, 4 miles distant. The valley of the former