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fteep and difficult, yet I thought my trou- 

 ble well repaid by feeing the fall to much 

 greater advantage than from above, for 

 from hence it feemed increafed in height, 

 and many of the prominent and pointed 

 rocks, before hidden, came into the view. 



The river accompanies the road to fome 

 diftance beyond this waterfall. Where 

 they parted, we left the road for a while, 

 and wandered along the banks of the 

 ftream for fome time, till we came to 

 a mofl wild fcene of wooded and pro- 

 jecting rocks, overhanging the black 

 and difmal ftream. A graffy ledge, at 

 fome height above the water, on the 

 other fide, reminded me moft forcibly 

 of the fcene where Gray has placed his 

 Bard : 



High on a rock, whofe haughty brow 

 Frowns o'er old Conwy's foaming flood, 

 RobM in the fable garb of woe, 

 With haggard eyes, the poet flood ; 



(Loofe 



