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require to be actually carried home — such is the force and 

 efficiency of strong waters. In a very sultry and else- 

 where airless day, the undulations of the atmosphere, 

 and the mist-like showers of broken spray, are most 

 refreshing ; but there is almost always a deficiency of good 

 grassy slopes on which to lay ourselves out reposingly, 

 like ancient Romans, and foolish young people are ever 

 and anon making still more foolish old ones cry out 

 screechingly, by "going too near the edge," or standing 

 on picturesque perching places, where men and maidens 

 love to congregate, " and dally with the wind and scorn 

 the sun." We quite agree with Professor Forbes, that 

 small waterfalls, unthought of till discovered by one's 

 self, and enjoyed by not more than two at a time, are, on 

 the whole, the best. You feel a pleasant and not unjusti- 

 fiable pride in your position, and believe for the time that 

 it is unknown to all the world but yourselves; and so 

 those silvery streamlets, in their "innocent brightness,' - '' 

 often convey a higher and more vivid sense of beauty, and 

 produce a more pleasing impression, than do the awful 

 and gigantic gorges where resound the dreadful voices of 

 the sons of thunder. Now, Norway abounds in cataracts 

 of every kind, beyond all calculation, and hence its charm. 

 — North British Review, vol. xxi. 



