a <5 OF THE WATERS. 



fifteen feet, mcafured by aline and plummet, inSeptember, 1761 ; 

 the \veatherfine, and the water low. It is a trout-ftream, pretty 

 frzeable trouts being taken in it above the fall. It was the cuftom 

 of the late Colonel Moor, of Halyjlone, to put them into fuch places, 

 obfcure alpine rivulets and lakes. 



A mile to the north of Bcllingham, is a cateratft, called, 



Harefhaw-Lim. The fall is about thirty feet. The precipices 

 below rife to an amazing and frightful height, in a femilunar 

 form, of the arenaceous laminated kind ; the Sorbus aucnparia, 

 the oak, and other trees, fattening their roots in them ; the ivy, 

 capillary, and cruftaceous plants, variegating their fides. By 

 the brook, and in the middle of it, are rocks fallen from them 

 of a vaft magnitude, upon whofe tops are Vaccinia nigra, Fragra- 

 ria, and the Enrnet rofe, and other plants. In the eaftern preci- 

 pice, by the water-fall, is a femicircular flone-grotto, with a 

 {lone-feat in it, the canopy over it large, but from the nature of 

 the rock too dangerous to be frequented for pleafure, the loofe 

 parting floncs being objects of horror. 



At Tecket, near Simonburn, is a water-fall between two dreadful 

 precipices, which feem every moment as if they would tumble 

 down. Above it, the water runs on a natural flone- pavement 

 for a confiderable fpace , and at a fmall diflance from it, on a 

 rifing ground, pleafantly facing the fouth fun, is a natural ftone- 

 grotto, with a ftone-feat in it ; and at one corner a cavity, refem- 

 bling a Hone-cupboard. The roof, or canopy, is one folid rock 

 of a vaft magnitude, of the coarfe rag or millftone-grit, refting 

 with its north end in the ground. So many uncommon objects 

 prefenting themfelves to our view, render this a very romantic 

 fpot, fill our minds alternately with wonder and amazement, 



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