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rilECIPICES AND PR'.lMONTOltlES. 
the hill on both sides, is iolid rock of 
Tlie arch approaches the semi-elliptical form ; 
larger ay.is of the ellipsis, which would be the cofd ^ 
arch, is many times longer than its transverse. 
the sides of this bridge are provided in some 
parapet of fixed rocks, yet few persons have “ jliJ; 
resolution to walk'to them, and look over 
The passenger involuntarily falls on his hands, ^ 
‘ and peeps Over it. Looking down . litj' 
j)arapet. 
height, for the space of a minute, occasions a 
ache. If the view from above be so extjuisilely P.' iju 'l 
not long to be borne, that from beneath is deligh , , )y 
e.xtreme. It is impossible for tlie emotions C 
the sublime to be felt in a greater degree than at # 
The rapture of the spectator cannot be descriW 
he sun-eys an arch at once so beaptiful. So elevate > ^ 
light, .springing up, as it were, to heaven ! ^ p<*,, 
'lliis grand natural bridge is in the county 
bridge, to which it has given name, and affords ‘jjji 
and commodious 'passage o\er a valley, which v 
crossed elsewhere for a considerable distance. 
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PRECIPICES AND PROMONT 
PKSSELY GAt/T. 
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The precipitous pathways which frequently ^JjJ 
Indian Appeiiiiiues, a chain of mountains 
the Western or Malabar Coasts of the Peninsulaj 
Gauts ; and of these abrupt and perpendicular . 
Bessely Gaut is considered as the most ^ 
admirably described in the travels of Lord Va 
which the following particulars are extracted. 
On entering the defiles of the chain of l!'^ ,■(' 
which the table-land of Mysore is separated 
country of Canara and Malabar, the scenery 
tremely Wild and romantic. Having teach® 
situated on the summit of tliis 
Chuttoor, -- j,.. 
his lordship began liis descent at three in the/ ^ 
V 
>d I' 
great labour out of a 
a road formed with ^ 
over which tlie torrents of the precediHS 
