fifth o f February, o f thejaid year, thatfuperb edifice, which was
fituate over againft Hafflund, together with every thing jn it, fi;nfe
down into an abyfi p f an hundred fathom -deep, the gap being
inftiintaneoufly filled; up by a piecg/of water, betwixt three on four
hundred ells .long, and o f half the breadth, The houfe was doubly
walled, but o f thefe, as well; as^feyeral high .towers, not the )eaft
trace was to be feern; with it poifhed fourteen ipuls, and two
hundred head o f cattl^^ThedOrd, and lady Woenhehiold, two
children, and the'fteward had the good fortune providentially to
fave themfelves. The lady being then near her-time, was attended
by a midwife, who -in. a. .great confiernation came to acquaint
them, that the houfe-, and ground began lb give way, -upon which
they immediately crofled the water to a feat o f her lord’s brother,
where the very next day-the lady wasjd.ehyered. The-paule of-this
fo extraordinary cataftrophe, was no other, than the aforementioned
large river Glaamen or Glomen, which precipitating i$felf dawn
the waterfall near Sarp, had probably for a fong-time, iq its iubter-,
raucous concealment, undenniiied the foundation; * for its-courfe
there is extremely rapid, tod the Water-fall near J S a ^ ^ iv k ig no
lels than fiyenteen mills, is,fo violent, that', bqfides^ the ,rroa£$tg8
thereof, which are heard four or five leagues off, its water is thrown
up into the air to fitch a height, jh a t at ^ ^ e 'difiance^-in dry
weather, it looks like rainconfequently arambow may always- be
leen here when the iun ihines, its ray£ being frequently rpfra<ited
among the drops o f watery and thus is ^h ibited the;cl^ir|^'idea
p | the formation o f that meteor. \ Thefe water-falls, in
which are # different height tod rapidity, tho’ nope^emtal to this,
are notlefs dangerous, on too near an^pprikeh to'them than^the
above-mentioned Mofkoeftrom. Captain Wcernefkiold had. fatal
experience o f this in the year 1735, when, bytoadyertency, the
current o f the Sarp water-fall overpowered him, and .oyerfet the
boat. In thefe places fivimxfaing will not fave the life o f any animal,,
the ducks pnly excepted,:/who, after continuing for foms
time out o f fight, -emerge alive without any hurt, according to the
report o f thofe who have diverted themfelves with the experiment.
In ancient times this catarad is fkid to have been made ufe o f for
* An iuffiance o f the like happened in. Switzerland, iS i 8, when thewHole town o f
Plurs fuddeiily funk in and was never feen afterwards, *
the
chiefs^bf J^dmoris,. änd-the hke
pefts. dfofpoiety;'' they .wdei&brown: down^^live.4tp/rhe daftted by
tK^ih^fierous: wat@Sf agaidft the^ spbikts,of thej rocks, cthift j.th.ey
-roigbtkperffk by a .vipfen^ejjanaldgojisbto that; to
wMc3^hgyjhaff;iüffigaä8d 9li!#rS:ina[pd'nifome^ 5;:iwhidh,S: however
fey^rejbri|uÖt^ Owned tbhave adequate asad Emblematical.
. The Egyptian* wäter-falls or nitaradsj. mentioned by Pliny,
were probacy,-fipts fo- r^rtlarkkold'4s Tfiefe, -. and-, feme others,, in
Jjfprway,.lithe/fajl ggp t^|rfjfFp|nJthejrpeks notrqx:<^eding' fgv^l or §i
eight- ifeet..« Anff as<tfi& 09i;%o£^^U^catara6t&;E gfeafelpeyer,»
häs (nqvfpF yf% deprived^ gf ' $ f e * h e%r i n g , - Cham’s
gjffoupl b&sffljfidfeqfd as vjfipq-f
ärjfff i (tiiöugh;t-]^fehned©r..Ri(dgLyd PpGo.c%jyho in-hi^deferip-
tipq^of'theTaftjj.tohnadvert-Sppnjthis
fededt other and larger catarads,- which toayT o |urt-her, up the
Country." - -
| 'S p rjC i!T .;3
ca The« bridge^f.oyer, ^e^rijrg-s in Norway,Tjmr-the b e lh o f
knowledge, aae not any where wallecL but framed merely o f ’tim-- Ü ilYtTS.?!‘
ber, o f which are made the rrone-cafes; thefe are ltufgq; to d ; pu% conßro&°n-
drangular,- and ferve a&j pillars or fopporters, heilig, filled with
nones uxTfbrder to'fettle them. The laegeft o f thTs kindTTSereabouts,
is the bridge p f Supdfc in.Ciddbt^i^fdale, where the water o f
the -GretoMfoes* which at firft is called Oten,andf J-aagen, begins
to'mcreafe.' ' Thrs' bridge, or which lP if’fefd 'u iat if-W pevlj: "fi-
ni&ed^fomg repairs' beingcontinually neeefiaiy, if a thouftod paces'
l©ng, and mnfMls"of fifety-tiiree Stone fäfes.-'\ Mbre in the diöcefe
ofTergfh, bah h f'^ sty h td ’gi
worth wKffp to jbufid Ifrofig and lafting bridges.' In many, places,
the manner pl^einfetoforiidicm tsrtistg'; where the narrownefsjand
rapidity o f the current w ill not admit off finking any Rone cafes,
thick mails are laid on each fide, o f f h d r e , ' with th e thickefl
end failened to the rocks o f the mountains; " one mail'bdrtg thus ‘
laid hi the.Water, another is'pläöed 'npöhlft^ reäcfohg)^fotiibm be?
yönd k , - toditheni'a 'thirdiBrj fburth in^sthe- likoipfc^refflom t# .th |
. c s0%l3®us-aä'‘ma{'^uM^iÄatfupi^ÄöiAÄttr^-pÄl^l&trexlältffliöiiifffiSltiBisv -
ea geftjS,, ^BMlljliSh ljgijpi; acccli$ ;p^pter m^g^iti^inraflM^&^-aidiendijcaiiet.-
'Spmn. Scipion. §.
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