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FALLS OF FOyLRS. 
pictures of romance, or the fearful scenes of enchantment, and gives 
a most interesting and perfectly new subject for the mind. From 
the finest terrace, comnianding all the beauties of Matlock, you enter 
the rock by a dry, roomy, and even mountainous archway, perfectly 
safe and pleasant for the most timid female. The external surface 
of the Heights of Abraham abounds in rare botanical plants, and from 
the Serpentine and Moon Battery Walks, shaded by fine and lofty 
cedars, the most sublime scenery is taken, rich and romantic as the 
imagination can conceive. The pure air of ibis delightful region, 
and the extraordinary instances and facts of the lengthened periods 
of existence of its inhabitants, proclaim this to be really the seat 
of health. 
The principal objects of general observation within the cavern, 
are the rocky mountain archway, imbedding marine shells; the 
druses, or grottos; fish-ponds ; Ossian’s Hall; an arcade to the 
Hall of Enchantment in the Castle of Otranto, of indescribable gran- 
deur ; the den of lions ; a grand cave, with the extraordinary distant 
glimmering of daylight; a fine arcade to Jacob’s well and fountain ; 
the waters of life ; the ascent by one hundred steps to the ancient 
mine worked by the Romans; other fish-ponds, with fish living in 
perpetual darkness ; the dark and gloomy cave of black stone; the 
cm my of miners ; the den of wolves and bears ; a romantic bridge ; 
a fine rocky scene. These recesses lead to the most fantastic, gro- 
tesque, and whimsical distributions of rocks, imbedding the most 
rare and delicate fossils, grottos, and druses, that defy all attempts 
at description or relation. 
Falls of Foyers. 
Foyers is a river in Scotland. Dr. Ganett, in his Tour, vol. i. 
p. 322, gives the following accurate and elegant description of the Falls 
of Foyers. . “ Having left our horses at General’s Hut, we were con- 
ducted by our landlord to the Falls. We first visited the upper one, 
which is about a mile and a half from the house, and nearly half a 
mile above the lower Fall. Here the river Foyers being confined on 
each side by steep rocks, precipitates itself with great velocity, 
forming a very fine cataract. A little below the Fall, a bridge has 
been thrown over by the proprietor, Frazer or Foyers, from which 
the Fall is seen; but in order to obtain a proper view of it, we with 
some difficulty scrambled down the steep batiks to the rock below, 
from whence we beheld this romantic scene in perfection. The 
bridge and rocks form a very fine frame or fore ground, behind which, 
at the distance of perhaps twenty yards, appeared the first part of the 
Fall ; the second and most important break w'as a few yards nearer, 
and the lowest almost under the arch. Our guide was present when 
very accurate measurements were taken of these Fails. The follow- 
ing particulars are therefore put down from the information obtained 
on this interesting occasion. 
From the arch of the bridge to the surface of the water, after the 
lowest part of the Fall, 200 feet. — Height of the Fall, 70 feet. — The 
bridge was built, savs the Dr. in 1793, before which time the only 
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