F in e s c e n e r y
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We found ourfelves feated in a fpot equalized by few in piclu..
refque and magnificent fcenery. The banks of the river that!
r.uihes by the houfe is fringed with trees; and the courfe often
interrupted by cafcades. At a fmall diftance the ground begins to j
rifer as we mount, the eye is entertained with, new obje&s-
the river rolling beneath the dark lhade of alders, an extent of]
plain compofed of fields bounded by. groves; -and as the walk]
advances, appears a deep and tremendous hollow, ihagged with 1
trees, and winding far amidft. the hills. We are alarmed with the I
roar o f invifible cataracts, long before their place is difcoveredJ
and. find them precipitating themfelves down narrow chafms ofl
ftupendous depths, fo narrow at top, that highlanders in the I
eagernefs of the chace will fearlefsly fpring over thefe Bara A
thra. They meander for miles amidft the mountains,, and are!
the age-worn work of water,, branch, off into every glen, h id l
with trees of various, fpecies. Torrents roll over .their bottoms «
often darting down precipices o f a thoufand forms, lofing them-1
'felves beneath the undermined rocks, and appearing again ■ white I
with the violence o f the fall. By laying afide.the boughs,,and I
creeping to the verge, got fight of thefe otherwife.latent catarafts; I
but the profpeft fufficiently tired my, head.. Befides<thefe dark. I
fOme waters,, multitudes o f others precipitate themfelves in full I
view down the fteep fides o f the adjacent hills; and Create.for 1
feveral hundreds o f feet a feries o f moft magnificent falls.
Above rifes a magnificent hill,, which as far as the fight can.1
reach is cloathed with birch and pines,. the ihelter o f flags,, roes I
and black game.
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