. The falls of Niagara . t,and the deep blue water into which it falls, produce avivid impression on the mind of the beholder. The Stor-Elven here presents the curious phenomenon of a streamchanging, not from a perpendicular fall to a rapid, but thereverse, from a rapid to a perpendicular fall. A greatportion of the right bank of the river at the fall, and for aconsiderable distance below, is chiefly composed of a stiffblue clay, and the river once flowed past Sarpsborg, amile below, in a succession of magnificent rapids. Atthat time a superb mansion with numerous out-buildingsstood at the ter
. The falls of Niagara . t,and the deep blue water into which it falls, produce avivid impression on the mind of the beholder. The Stor-Elven here presents the curious phenomenon of a streamchanging, not from a perpendicular fall to a rapid, but thereverse, from a rapid to a perpendicular fall. A greatportion of the right bank of the river at the fall, and for aconsiderable distance below, is chiefly composed of a stiffblue clay, and the river once flowed past Sarpsborg, amile below, in a succession of magnificent rapids. Atthat time a superb mansion with numerous out-buildingsstood at the termination of the rapids. On the 5th ofFebruary, 1702, the mansion, together with everything inand about it, sunk into an abyss six hundred feet deep,and was entirely buried beneath the water. The walls ofthe house were of unusual strength and thickness, withseveral high towers, but the whole was buried out of persons and two hundred head of cattle were alsoengulfed. The catastrophe was caused by the washing.
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