. Westmoreland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, illustrated : from original drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, & c. ; with descriptions by T. Rose . all can be seen. On arriving at a turn in this road, the eyeis arrested by a considerable stream of water, descending in one unbroken sheet from arock of great height into a basin below; and the ear is at the same time stunned with theroar of the torrent, which produces a concussion that appears to shake the very mountainitself. The grandeur of the spectacle is considerably increased by the foaming and strug-gling of the waters ov
. Westmoreland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, illustrated : from original drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, & c. ; with descriptions by T. Rose . all can be seen. On arriving at a turn in this road, the eyeis arrested by a considerable stream of water, descending in one unbroken sheet from arock of great height into a basin below; and the ear is at the same time stunned with theroar of the torrent, which produces a concussion that appears to shake the very mountainitself. The grandeur of the spectacle is considerably increased by the foaming and strug-gling of the waters over a rocky bed previously to their reaching the basin. The beautiful and well-known description of a waterfall, by Thomson, applies withsingular fidelity to this cascade :— Smooth to the shelving brink, a copious floodRolls fair and placid ; where, collected all,In one impetuous torrent, down the steepIt thundering shoots, and shakes the country first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad;Then whitening by degrees as prone it falls,And from the loud-resounding rocks belowDashd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloftA hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless
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