[Frost and fire : natural engines, tool-marks and chips : with sketches taken at home and abroad by a traveller] . -^ ?3 S as Imi^^m^msi^^^iis ^mfkwmi ymAi. 11 RIVERS. 101 noon, when the sun is clear, a traveller craning over the edgesees three parts of a rainbow about a black shadow with lumi-nous edges ; a ghost of himself, wading through white clouds,which whirl and drift down the gorge like boiling mist. It is impossible to sketch a hole of this sort; but the markwhich the river is hewing out in the hill-side is one whichcould not well be mistaken for any other tool-mark. It isthe same as
[Frost and fire : natural engines, tool-marks and chips : with sketches taken at home and abroad by a traveller] . -^ ?3 S as Imi^^m^msi^^^iis ^mfkwmi ymAi. 11 RIVERS. 101 noon, when the sun is clear, a traveller craning over the edgesees three parts of a rainbow about a black shadow with lumi-nous edges ; a ghost of himself, wading through white clouds,which whirl and drift down the gorge like boiling mist. It is impossible to sketch a hole of this sort; but the markwhich the river is hewing out in the hill-side is one whichcould not well be mistaken for any other tool-mark. It isthe same as the mark at the Euikan Fall, L- The valley into which the river leaps bears other marks,which are as easy to read when the tool which makes themhas been seen at work. The glen was scooped out; Ijut riversare only cutting through and wearing out traces of ice. Theriver-mark is more than a thousand feet deep, but it is a merescratch on the side of the glen in which the river flows. Another famous Scandinavian fall is Tann Foss inJemptlan. It is near the watershed of the country, and the frontierbetween Norway and Sweden, on the road between Trondhjeman
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