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ther remarks on this grand waterflill. You 

 said just now, you preferred the fall of the 

 Velino for picturesque effect to any other 

 waterfall you have seen; yet it is a small 

 river compared even with the Traun, and 

 nothing compared with the Gotha, the 

 Rhine, or, above all, the Glommen. 



PoiET. — Size is merely comparative : I 

 prefer the fall of the Velino, because its 

 parts are in harmony. It displays all the 

 force and power of the element, in its rapid 

 and precipitous descent, and you feel, that 

 even man would be nothing in its waves, 

 and would be dashed to pieces by its force. 

 The whole scene is embraced at once by the 

 eye, and the effect is almost as sublime as 

 that of the Glommen, where the river is at 

 least one hundred times as large: for the 

 Glommen falls, as it were, from a whole valley 

 upon a mountain of granite, and unless where 

 you see the giant pines of Norway, fifty or 

 sixty feet in height, carried down by it and 

 swimming in its whirlpools like straws, you 

 have no idea of its magnitude and power : 

 yet still, I think, considering it in all its rela- 

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