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made by the Isle, throw themselves with a prodigious force, one 1678 

 towards the East, and the other towards the West, from off the ' ' nepm 

 end of the Isle, where the Great Fall of all is. 



After then these two Torrents have thus run by the two sides 

 of the Isle, they cast their Waters all of a sudden down into the 

 Gulph by two Great Falls ; which Waters are push'd so violently 

 on by their own Weight, and so sustain'd by the swiftness of the 

 motion, that they don't wet the Rock in the least. And here it 

 is that they tumble down into an Abyss above 600 Foot in depth. 



The Waters that flow on the side of the East, do not throw 

 themselves with that violence as those that fall on the West. 

 The reason is, because the Rock at the end of the Island, rises 

 something more on this side, than it does on the West; and so 

 the Waters being supported by it somewhat longer than [219] 

 they are on the other side, are carry 'd the smoother off: But 

 on the West the Rock slooping more, the Waters, for want of a 

 Support, become the sooner broke, and fall with the greater 

 precipitation. Another reason is, the Lands that lie on the West 

 are lower than those that lie on the East. We also observ'd, 

 that the Waters of the Fall, that is to the West, made a sort of 

 a square Figure as they fell, which made a third Cascade, less 

 than the other two, which fell betwixt the South and North. 



And because there is a rising Ground which lies before those 

 two Cascades to the North, the Gulph is much larger there than 

 to the East. Moreover, we must observe, that from the rising 

 ground that lies over against the two last Falls which are on the 

 West of the main Fall, one may go down as far as the bottom 

 of this terrible Gulph. The Author of this Discovery was down 

 there, the more narrowly to observe the Fall of these prodigious 

 Cascades. From hence we could discover a Spot of Ground, 

 which lay under the Fall of Water which is to the East, big 

 enough for four Coaches to drive a breast without being wet; 

 but because the Ground, which is to the East of the sloping 

 Rock, where the first Fall empties it self into the Gulph, is very 

 steep, and almost perpendicular, 'tis impossible for a Man to get 



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