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foaming below with a vaft noife, were in a Rate of fuch violent 
motion as to fpout water now and then on the top of the bridge ; 
a circumftance which rendered its furface fo exceedingly flippery, 
that the peafants were obliged to pafs it creeping on their hands 
and knees. 
We repeatedly vifited this pibturefque cafcade, and took feveral 
drawings of it in different points of view. We always performed 
this walk with guns in our hands, in cafe we fhould fall in with 
a hare, a fox, or a wolf, whofe numerous tracks we met with in 
the woods. We fought them a whole day in the heart of the 
foreft with a hope, and not without fome little fear, of finding 
thefe ferocious animals ; but were continually and perhaps happily 
difappointed. We difcovered every where marks of their ravages, 
fuch as the remains of animal carcafes, but never got fight of 
either. The probable caufe of our being difappointed in not find¬ 
ing game arofe from the neceffity we w T ere under to fearch without 
a dog. Not one was to be found in the village nor in the whole 
neighbourhood of Yervenkyle, which, according to the report of 
our landlord, was owing to the wolves fetting upon them at the 
very doors, and even in the houles themfelves of the inhabitants. 
Being unable therefore to find either hare, fox, or wolf, we were 
forced to take up with fmaller game, and divert ourfelves by killr¬ 
ing thofe little birds which in the North always fly during winter 
near the cataract, and which I never faw in Italy. This fpecies 
is named by Linnaeus turdus c'mSius . 
Some peafants who dwelt at a mill on the contrary fide of the 
bridge, 
