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We found ourfelves feated in a fpot equalized by few in pi&u-i
refque and magnificent fcenery. The banks o f the river t h a l
r.ulhes by the houfe is fringed with trees; and the courfe oftei
interrupted by cafcades. At a fmall diftance the ground begins to
rife: as we mount, the eye is entertained with, new obje&sl
the river rolling beneath the dark lhade of alders, an extent of
plain compofed of fields bounded by. groves; -and as the wall®
advances, appears a deep and tremendous hollow, ihagged with
trees, and winding far amidft. the hills. We are alarmed with the
roar of invifible cataracts, long before their place is difcovered 1
and find them precipitating themfelves down narrow- chafms of :
ftupendous depths, fo narrow at top, that highlanders in thafci
eagernefs of the chace will fearlefsly Ipring over thefe Bara-
thra. They meander for miles amidft the mountains,, and are*
the age-worn work, of water,, branch, off into every glen, hid®
with trees of various, fpecies. Torrents roll over .their bottoms®
often darting down precipices o f a thoufand forms, lofing them*
felves beneath the undermined rocks, and appearing again white
with the violence o f the fall- By laying afide the boughs,, and’,
creeping to the verge, got fight of thefe otherwife latent catarafts ;§
hut the profpedt fufficiently tired my, head.. Befides\thefe dark-:'
fome waters, multitudes of others precipitate themfelves in full
view down the. fteepTides o f the adjacent hills ; and create.fori
feveral hundreds of feet a feries ofimoft magnificent falls.
Above rifes a magnificent hill, which as far as the fight can!
reach is cloathed with birch and pines,. the ihelter o f f l a g s , roes I
and black game.
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