224 SPRINGS, RIVERS, CANALS, LAKES, 



(whence the name is in Scotland applied to a cataract) ; and Sou* 

 Milk Force, near the bottom of Buttermere lake, is supposed to 

 fall upwards of 300 yards. A curious cave was lately discovered, 

 p. S3, by miners near Crossfell, said to be two miles in length, and 

 full of splendid spars. Gordale Scarr, p. 1Q9> "ear Maliiam cove, 

 is a dreadful rent through high rocks, worthy of the attention of a 

 curious traveller. 



The cataracts in Cumberland are rivalled by a remarkable fall of 

 the Tees, on the west of the county of Durham, over which is a 

 bridge suspended by chains, seldom passed but by the adventurous 

 miners 5 nor must Asgarth force, in Yorkshire, be passed in 

 silence. 



In Perthshire is one of the most considerable cataracts in all Scot. 

 land: it is on the river Keith, which is famous fur its salmon, 

 fishery, and is near the Blair of Dromond ; the violent noise 

 produced from this fall of water is such, as to stun those who up- 

 proach it. 



The western coast of Ross-shire, is peculiarly distinguished by 

 natural curiosities of this and similar kinds ; especially by 

 the grand cataract of KiRKAG river, and the cave of < 

 MAN, near Assent point. The cascade of O LA MM A, in the heights 

 of Glen Elchaig, is truly sublime, amidst the constant darknc- 

 hills and woods. Ben Nevis will, of course, attract notice from 

 its singular form and elevation. According to Mr. Williams, it 

 consists of one solid mass of red granite, which he traced at the 

 base for four miles along the course of 11 rivulet on the cast ; the 

 height of this mass he computes at 3600 feet, and above it are 

 stratified rocks, the nature of which he d' os not explain; but, he 

 says, that those on the summit are so hard and tough, that wrought 

 iron falls short of them. The stupendous precipice, on liie north- 

 fast side, exhibitsal most an entire section of the mountain. In 

 Arg)lebhire, the marine cataract of Loch El if, liie beautiful lake 

 of Awe, and environs of Inverary, present the chief objects of 

 curiosity. 



The SHANNON, which is the largest river in Ireland, offers a 

 prodigious cataract. It rises in the county of Leitrim, in the pro- 

 vince of Connaught, which it divides from Leinster and Munslcr, 

 and running from north to south, lifter forming seveial hkes, turns 

 to the west, and falls into the Atlantic Ocean, after a course of oiie 



