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of the arch to the water, is about two hundred and ten feet, as ascertained 

 by admeasurement with a string and a stone at the end; the vertical 

 thickness of the arch is probably about thirty feet. The stream which 

 runs beneath, though inconsiderable, adds to the general effect. Drops 

 of water filter through the limestone and fall in quick succession from- 

 the arch, and, by the time occupied in their descent, their increasing 

 velocity, and their full bright appearance, serve in some degree to give a 

 measure of the height from which they fall, and increase the beauty of the 

 scene. " Whatever may have been the origin of this bridge," says a 

 recent visitor, " it seems pretty certain from an inspection of it, that it 

 has not been produced by any sudden and violent cause." There is 

 another natural bridge in Virginia, in Scot County, which is said to be 

 above three hundred and forty feet high, but is inferior to that of Cedar 

 Creek in form and completeness. 



NATURAL BRIDGE AND WATERFALL 

 OF GOLLING IN THE TYROL. 



The river Salza, or Salzach, rises in the mountains of the Tyrol; but 

 it is in Austria Proper that it runs the greater part of its course, at first 

 pursuing a westerly direction parallel with the Noric Alps, and then 

 flowing northward at no great distance from the Bavarian frontier, until 

 it joins the river Inn, which forms the north eastern boundary of 

 Bavaria. The tourist, who is already familiar with Switzerland, would 

 find much to delight and interest him, if, after lingering sometime in the 

 Tyrol, he were to track the Salza at its source at Mont Brenner to its 

 junction with the Inn. The valley of Salza is extensive, and the river is 

 rendered impetuous by passing alternately through ravines and mountain 

 defiles. The climate near the source is severe, and the snow lies there 

 for several months in the year. About June the heat becomes very 

 great, and the sirocco occasionally penetrates even to these regions ; but 

 it seldom lasts more than a few hours, and though sensibly felt, its effects 

 are greatly lessened, and its power is chiefly shown in melting the snow 

 and causing a sudden flood. The Salza begins to be navigable at 

 Hallien, about twenty miles above the Inn; at five miles from its junc- 

 tion it passes by Salzburg, celebrated for its saltworks. The waterfall 

 of Golling is in the upper part of its course a few miles from Hallien, 

 near a mountain which rises two thousand five hundred and seventy-two 

 feet above the level of the sea. Notwithstanding its grandeur, and the 

 bold and romantic scenery which surrounds it, it is comparatively little 

 known, owing to its lying out of the beaten path of the tourists. The 



