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Magdalena. The traveller should proceed 

 in a south-westerly direction across the 

 plain of Bogota, about three leagues and a 

 half, until he reaches the village of Soacha, 

 which is about half a league from the river 

 Bogota, where horses may be procured to 

 proceed on the journey. From the river to 

 the fall is nearly a league, and the road is 

 over a ridge of mountains which bound the 

 plain to the south-west. The view from 

 hence is excessively commanding and pic- 

 turesque, and the horizon terminates in a 

 chain of variously shaped eminences of diffe- 

 rent heights. The river Bogota, receiving 

 the waters of numerous tributary streams, 

 increases in breadth and depth as it ap- 

 proaches the cleft through which it dashes. 

 A short distance above the fall, its breadth 

 is one hundred and forty feet, but contracts 

 at the crevice into a narrow, deep bed, of 

 only forty feet, flowing rapidly through its 

 confined course with augmented violence. 



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