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I crofled a fmall bridge, when leaving the 

 road, I wandered along a foot path up a 

 wooded valley on the right, for about a 

 mile and a half, in fearch of a waterfall 

 that had been before defer ibed to me, 

 called Rhaiadr du, the black cataraft -, but it 

 was not without fome difficulty, and after 

 much afcending and defcending, that I 

 found it, In this cataract, which is fur- 

 rounded with dark and impending fcenery, 

 the water is thrown with vaft impetuofity 

 over three black and fmooth rocks, each in 

 a different direction. Of it's height I could 

 form no idea, as the top of the upper fall, 

 by the winding of the rocks, was not vifi- 

 ble from below. The rock that hangs 

 immediately over the fall, was, from it's 

 great height and rude form, a fine object 

 in the landfcape, and the whole of the 

 hollow, for fome diftance below the cata- 

 ract, extremely grand. I attempted to 

 climb to the upper part, but the rocks 

 D d 3 were 



