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breadth, and the great excess of this above the height of 
it, occasions to many a feeling of disappointment on its 
first being seen, which continues until the spectator is 
enabled to realise what the height of the fall actually is, 
and then what the immensity of the flow must be, seeing 
that it is a fall of such a breadth and of such a height. In 
the Falls of Imatra, we have what the spectator is at first 
disposed to call a rapid rather then a waterfall; but such 
arapid!. The Falls remind me of the Falls of Clyde; 
but while there is a similarity, what a difference/ Here 
you have Corralinn, and Stonebyres Linn, with its upper 
and lower fall, and much more, all combined into one 
continuous plunging, dashing, foaming, pouring torrent, 
rushing through a rocky defile, apparently exceeding half- 
a-mile in length. There is on the eastern side a table- 
rock, whence the whole can be seen in one coup d’oeil—or 
rather, I should say, whence the whole can be traced with 
a continuous sweep of the eye—for this cannot take in 
the whole at one glance. But view it whence you may, 
there it is: the torrent like a charge of cavalry, the 
cavalry rushing onward—broken—trying to re-form, all 
the while pushing on —failing to form—rushing and 
plunging, dashing, foaming, roaring on, on, still on. I 
have seen it in sunshine and rain, at sunrise and at 
sunset, by moonlight and in darkness—such darkness 
as there was when dawn and dusk constitute a single 
twilight—in clear light and with an overcast sky, and 
I was filled with a growing and continually expanding 
idea what I saw of the Falls. 
The vegetation of the whole locality was luxuriant. 
Amongst its productions were many of my countrymen— 
plants with which I at once claimed .acquaintance, as 
often do townsmen and even fellow-countrymen when 
they meet in a strange land, though, perhaps, had they 
met at their home they might have passed without even 
a look of recognition—and with these were many which told 
of a foreign land; and this gave a peculiar relish to the 
enjoyment experienced in recognising the former, by the 
