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force and power of the element, in its rapid 

 and precipitous descent, and you feel that 

 even man would be nothing in its waves, and 

 would be dashed to pieces by its force. The 

 whole scene is embraced at once by the eye, 

 and the effect is almost as sublime as that of 

 the Glommen, where the river is at least 

 one hundred times as large; for the Glom- 

 men falls, as it were, from a whole valley 

 upon a mountain of granite, and unless 

 where you see the giant pines of Norway, 

 fifty or sixty feet in height, carried down by 

 it and swimming in its whirlpools like straws, 

 you have no idea of its magnitude and power: 

 yet still, I think, considering it in all its rela- 

 tions, this is the most awful fall of water I 

 have seen, as that of Velino is the most per- 

 fect and beautiful. I am not sure that I 

 ought not to place the fall of the Gotha 

 above that of the Rhine, both for variety of 

 effect and beauty; and, I think, the river is 

 quite as large, and the colour of the water 

 quite as beautiful. 



HAL. But our horses are ready, and the 

 time of separation arrives. I trust we shall 



