CATARACTS AND CASCADES. 
b7 Doctor Clarke. " Our ascent, as we dre j 
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"' source of tlie river, became steep 5!);^ 
summits towered above us, in the grea 
" grandeur; the toirent, in its rugged oe ^,3 /. 
" wh-de foaming on our left. the ^ 
" one of the sublimest natural amphithea 
" beheld ; and here the guides desired us jjug« if 
" beheld; and nere me gmueo 
" noise of waters ftlenced every otlier sound. e vy 
j:„.,1orlvr fn an inn** /.i 
" rocks rose perpendicularly, to an 
" whose sides and fissures, to the very c 0 
" their tops, were covered with .^5^ o( K \ 
“ every possible direcUon, arnong a ‘ ih .jj r 
" shrubs ; and enormous plane-trees ' ‘ f 
" branches above the torrent. As we apir ^id 
" branches above the lorreni. ""J'of t< 
" gulf, we beheld several cascades, nahe^ 
" fng impetuously ^m chasi^ ui tlie 
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•> caLact continues during all seasons of « 
“ unaffected by the casualties of ram 0 
“ Having reached the chasms whence jural 
“ we found, in their front, a beautiful _^,.yoh 
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" or eight feet in depth, serving as a 
“ water during the first moments of ‘ ® , , ;,e 
" so 
“ the bottom 
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clear, that the minutest ® ^ tb^*^ 
The copious overflowing oi i 
;arance, to a spectator belo^^_.,„ ft , 
ig to the 
" tliere is only one source 
" causes the appearance, to a ®pe‘:tatoi 1 
" cascades, falLg to the depth about^^ 
tlrere is only one source. Behind 
the water issues. We entered one r J// 
into a cavern. Here the the h’ // 
great force, beneath the rock, to'Ji jro s / 
Ltside. The whole of the rock 
covered with moss ; close to the b« ^pd ^ 
plane trees ; above were oaks and pme ; 
a naked and fearful precipice.’ ^Y'■ f 
The bold and precipitous country o j.ept’ 
of waterfalls and perpendicular ,1,0 ^ ^ 
erving of notice ; more P^l*-'^’^ ‘.jorth^MiS V/ 
vicinity of Mount Rosa, a part of die 
of Piedmont. The river Oreo, tsd by ^ ^ 
from Mount St. Gothard, Mount 
branches of tlie Apennines, forms at 
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variety 
