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the 'gallery, as it is Galled, where a mafs bigger .than anyeaffleih
-thë whole world appears to have fallen from the :rock ; thé pieces
•are, fome o f âhe bulk o f a houfe, Tome -lefs^^Hujs,.all as pointed
as i f .millidnsHidf pièces oflj^roken glafs, lay, .there. (,The river
roars prbdigioufly astit paffes-through thefe ftupendbûs ruins, over
iwhich/'Jpo^vever, a-.Wâjÿ.‘has .been laid with infinité labour,, but
.certainly one more difficult is not to.be met with throughout the
world. :
r .When fuch a Bergrap falkintd a creek,, of. any deep water, .the
fragments indeed are outlpf fight, but,their%brnerfipm,caufes fuch
an agitation o f the water,: as .to overflow and scarry a way,the adjacent
houfesj and éven ch u r ch ^ 1 o f which, on the 8th o f January
there^âs ,-aUemarkable Imfânce initiéJrajlfll'of Oerikoug,1 and in
th^ rannexed parifli o f Strand, on;Sundmôer, where!a mafi/Ior promontory,
called -Rammersfield, '•hanging-over. Nordai-creekj being
undermined by the.watef,, fuddenly fell down,‘whereby the water,
for the fpace.of jtwo imles, sfwdled\ Vidth fuch force, th a t the
church o f Strand (Whidhhas - fince been- rebuilt on a higher fpot)
though a diredthalfd^gae'^n the other fide o f fhe b a lk ,‘‘was en-
tirelyïovefflowed, jjfèveral- barks, carried -up the country, many
houfes de^royed, ' and*fome people drownedjJ'yct the credkîwas fo
%r from béing filled.up,' th at tfie .fiffiermen fay, they find no difference
in the bottom, wh ich ,J thereabouts, !is ‘no ie ls .than tgooTa-
-thoms deep*. And in the beginningofftte'prefent cefi1^ y r;fome~
thing fimilar happened td a mountain in J ulfferr which' falling Into
"■a ™ ôeèâffbnêd,'an hïöödation, wherebytth e^^Sd ufhobd full
-tained great*damages. -
: S' E C T .v / jc .,
~ ^rom tkefe inconycuiencies and difaftefs ■ io .which.Norway and
all mountainous , countries, are, expofed,,,! proeëed, on .'the other
Cónvenien-
fçite and. àd- ^
I- vantages arif-,
ing from them
to th& inhabitants,
f ^0V6* bèr of-ojpmronj- t o - MsuiwMÏtfid^îtaçatfiS}
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fiffures, and it èeing £he®t hard froft, aTdSSihVm
WÈÈÈm M l tinsJreafon, — Rohauh P t S
Tralte Phyfîqu^Tom I. chapi:k i i« , .< M M | § dur a feTnoref^“
grands Jtour eohtenif* beaUTOuffie^ liljifcul-,
according
té the
Creator’s wife
'and bountiful
dèfign.