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unamiable member, called the " Roarer," 

 who reminds one of a mad giant escaped 

 from Bedlam. He has ground and torn 

 the face of the rock in his downward 

 course, and is for ever frantically striv- 

 ing to shatter it further. The other 

 three wear forms of exquisite beauty. 

 The head of the family, called " The 

 Great Fall," makes one deliberate plunge 

 of a thousand feet, unbroken by contact, 

 and falling into a basin which has been 

 sounded for three hundred feet without 

 a bottom being reached. This matchless 

 column occupies a semi- circular niche in 

 the precipice, which looks like a shrine 

 hollowed out on purpose. 



The other two falls, the "Rocket" 

 and the " Dame Blanche," owe their 

 peculiar characteristics to the form of 



