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temples are the remains of a serai , and also an 
extensive ruin, which has evidently been used, or 
intended for, a monastery, being divided into nume- 
rous narrow cells, with here and there a remnant of 
sculpture, emblematic of the office of the ancient 
occupant. 
At the bottom of the upper fall, and sufficiently 
near to be continually wetted by the water, is a 
small archway of gothic form, hewn in the solid 
rock. This is the entrance to a little excavated 
chapel, apparently of a later date than the build- 
ings, it being profusely ornamented with Saracenic 
carvings, and roofed with goins and intersecting 
arches, which spring from elegant pillars of the 
Moorish style. The apartment is very small, and, 
from want of ventilation, the air within is so abo- 
minably offensive, that even the most curious visitor 
will make but a hasty survey of it. Foul birds, 
bats, vampires, and noxious reptiles, have for many 
years past made it their abode, attracted by its 
darkness and the chilly damps which cling to and 
exude from its slimy sides. Just within the entrance, 
the incessant fulminations of the cataract are 
perfectly deafening ; the loudest shout, even the bark 
of a dog, can scarcely be heard. The place, though 
elegant in form, is fraught with horrors to the mind ; 
indeed, imagination can hardly picture a scene pos- 
sessing so extraordinary a combination of the beau- 
tiful and attractive, with the utterly repulsive and 
