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merits a visit, on account of its singular, and distinguished
features [1]. It is the most curious you will see in the course
of the tour. The stream here, though the water be low, is much
divided, and broken by a variety of pointed dark rocks; after
this, collecting itself into one torrent, it is precipitated with
a horrid rushing noise, into a dark gulph, unfathomable to the
eye; and then, after rising in foam, it is once more dashed with
a thundering noise headlong down a steep craggy channel till it
joins the Rothay, below Ambleside. The parts of this cataract are
noble. The deep dark hue of the rocks, in the gloomy bosom of a
narrow glen, just visible by day, and the foaming water, tinged
with a hue of green caught from the trees and shrubs that wave
over the fall, render this scene highly awful and picturesque.
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From Ambleside to Keswick, sixteen miles of excellent mountain
road, furnishes much amusement to the traveller. If the season be
rainy, or immediately after rain, all the possible variety of
cascades, water-falls, and cataracts, are seen in this ride; some
precipitating themselves from immense heights, others leaping and
bounding from rock to
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