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were too perpendicular and flippery to at- 

 tempt it without danger -, therefore con- 

 tenting myfelf with feeing as much as I 

 could from below, I croiTed the water, and 

 crept along the fhelving rocks by the fide 

 of the dream, for near half a mile. Here 

 the banks clofed in over my head, leaving 

 but a narrow chafm, from which the light 

 was excluded by the dark foliage from each 

 fide, and I found myfelf entering to ap- 

 pearance into the mouth of a deep and 

 horrid cavern. The fides were too fleep 

 for me to think of clambering up, and ex- 

 cept going quite back again to the cata- 

 ract, I had no alternative but to penetrate 

 this difmal place. This I foon did, for it 

 continued but a frmill way ; and now find- 

 ing it's banks fufficiently flanting for me 

 to afcend to the meadows above, I was not 

 a little pleafed to efcape from this abode of 

 damp and horror. 



Regaining 



