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The cascade, which is the next object of our
observation, may be divided into the broken, and the
regular fall.
The first belongs most properly to the rock; whose
projecting fragments, impeding the water, break it into
pieces - dash it into foam - and give it all the spirit, and
agitation, which this active element is capable of
receiving.- Happy is the pencil, which can seize the
varieties, and brilliancy of water under this circumstance.
The regular fall of water meets no obstruction; but
pours down, from the higher grounds to the lower, in one
splendid sheet.
Each kind hath it's beauties; but, in general, the
broken fall is more adapted to a small
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