button to main menu  Otley's Guide 1823 (8th edn 1849)

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GORDALE.

and grows more gloomy as we progress. The rocks on each side rise to an enormous height, and are the habitations of kites and ravens. At length, on turning round an awful-looking, precipitous shoulder of rock. the horrors of the dismal gorge, and the almost closing precipices, burst upon the sight; whilst the din of the foaming waters, and the rushing of the winds through the narrow crevice, heighten the terror of the scene, which is still further enhanced by a cliff 240 feet high, which threatens every moment to hurl destruction on the heads of those who stand underneath its seeming-ever-falling bulk. An adventurous person may climb above the lower fall to another, which rushes from a round aperture in the cliff above. The whole may also be surveyed from the top.

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The gorge.

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