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with intelligence, to shut themselves up at 

 the approach of rain? Even when the 

 weather changes in a moment from sun- 

 shine to rain, though before expanded, they 

 immediately close. Here for the first time 

 this season I heard the Cuckoo, a welcome 

 harbinger of summer. 



Having often been told of the cataract 

 of Elf-Carleby, I thought it worth while to 

 go a little out of my way to see it ; espe- 

 cially as I could hear it from the road, and 

 saw the vapour of its foam, rising like the 

 smoke of a chimney. On arriving at the 

 spot, I perceived the river to be divided 

 into three channels by a huge rock, placed 

 by the hand of Nature in the middle of its 

 course. The water, in the nearest of these 

 channels, falls from a height of twelve or fif- 

 teen ells, so that its white foam and spray 

 are thrown as high as two ells into the air, and 

 the whole at a distance appears like a con- 

 tinual smoke. On this branch of the cas- 

 cade stands asaw-mill. The man employed in 

 it had a pallid countenance, but he did not 



