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it slowly again, he fell over on his side. His eye FIR8T 



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immediately became fixed, and though his extre- ~ 

 mities every now and then shot convulsively, he 

 never showed the least desire to raise up his head. 

 His heart fluttered much from the time he laid 

 down, and at intervals beat very strong ; then 

 stopped for a moment or two, and then beat again ; 

 and continued faintly beating several minutes after 

 every other part of his body seemed dead. 



In a quarter of an hour after he had received 

 the poison he was quite motionless. 



A few miles before you reach the great fall, and The great 



fell 



which, indeed, is the only one which can be called 

 a fall, large balls of froth come floating past you. 

 The river appears beautifully marked with streaks 

 of foam, and on your nearer approach the stream 

 is whitened all over. 



At first, you behold the fall rushing down a 

 bed of rocks, with a tremendous noise, divided 

 into two foamy streams, which, at their junction 

 again, form a small island covered with wood. 

 Above this island, for a short space, there appears 

 but one stream, all white with froth, and fretting 

 and boiling amongst the huge rocks which obstruct 

 its course. 



Higher up it is seen dividing itself into a short 

 channel or two, and trees grow on the rocks which 

 caused its separation. The torrent, in many places, 

 has eaten deep into the rocks, and split them into 

 large fragments, by driving others against them. 



