3gO CATARACTS AND CASCADES. 
traveller who is unaccustomed to them; 
a gun or pistol, is there more terrible than the 
of thunder. A steep precipice, with monstro 
rocks, which seem ready to fall, joined 
the river, add largely to the general ‘ 
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cataracts of tliis river are more or less 
in proportion as the waters are more or je‘~ 
the melting snows, witli which the tops of 
are covered. One in particular, called the ISn^' 
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its 
prodigiously high rock with S'® 1)''' 
descent is said to exceed eiev * 
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cascade, called by tlie inhabitants v elica 
dislingtrish it from a less fall a little -pe 
jM'ecipitate themselves from a height^ of abov 
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violence : 
feet. 
In Dalmatia, the river 
and iifty feet, forming a deep majestic so jjpl, 
cho resounding between the steep ^ ^ 
banks. Many broken fragments of rocks, w 
by the echo - . .rtnu- a 
banks. Many broken fragments of rocks, ^ 
the course of the river after its fall, break th®!'/ 
render them still more lofty and sonorous. ■ 
of the repercussion, their froth flies off 
particles, and is raised in successive 
scattered, by the agitation of the air, over tne 
these clouds ascend directly upward, the hiW j 
the noxious south*east wind called the 
The fall of tlie Staub-Bach, in tlic valley ol 
s estimated at nine hundred feet of perpeo v* ^ ' 
and about a league from Schafl hausen, nt ... 
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.auffen, in Switzerland, is a tremendous 
a, is a ticmciiuv...... S n;,.'' 
llliine, where that river precipitates itself ' . 
to be seventy feet in height, and not less tba ' ^ ^ 
and fifty feet in breadth. 
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In Sweden, near Gottenburgh, tlie _ rive'" j, 
in o\\tiatrn, iitiAii vjuucuuuii^iA, u-o ** , y'*’ .* 
down from a prodigiously high precipice 
with a dreadful noise, and with such. amaz'iV _jj 
trees designed for the mast? of ships, '' ''|iiii'' Sf* 
down tiie ii\er, are usually turned upside do' 
and shattered in pieces. They frequently s' ‘ jjiil'pt j 
water, as to disappear for a quarter ot an ho'''’ 'J’i'S;'' 
and sometimes for three quarters of an 
which the torrent precipitates tliem, is of f 
