A bridge, if accessible, should be tried from four stations, on each side of the water, above and below. This, however, can be approached only from above. The view, I prefer, is on the southside of the Mynach. Turn into a field on the right, as you go from the inn to the bridge, and keep along the precipice.

STATION.

Let the distant mountain appear above the trees behind the bridge; then bring its top over the arches.

The view usually drawn is from the other side of the river, close below the bridge; but to take it there, you must descend, till you have little choice of station, or even of footing, besides losing the fine distance.

The falls of the Mynach are to be visited next.*

*The perpendicular depth of the four falls is 208 feet, without allowing for the declivity of the three pools. Malkin, p. 367.

The greatest waterfall in Europe is said to be that newly

About a hundred yards beyond the bridge, a path on the left strikes into the wood, to a rocky projection from whence they are seen at once: but lofty and magnificent as they are, they can hardly be drawn, being viewed from above, and the deep woody dell preventing any nearer approach. In summer too the supply of water is sometimes scanty, and then they are mere threads. A wet season, and waterfalls are in all their glory.

A little further on, another path will lead you down the wood, by a steep and rather difficult descent, to the third wonder-the Fall of the Rhydoll, one of

Those loftier scenes Salvator's soul adored.

ROGERS.

This is seen from the back window at the inn, discovered in Lapland on the river Lulea, one eighth of a mile broad, and 400 feet perpendicular. Edinburgh Philos. Jour. No. 3, p. 199. The highest fall of water now known is the Rogfossen, or Smoke Waterfall, in Upper Telemark, Norway, 970 feet perpendicular; as lately ascertained by Esmark, Mineralogical Professor at Christiana. A painting of it, taken on the spot by W. White, was exhibited at Somerset-house in 1819.

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but how changed! the height of the precipices, the gloom of their shadows, the roar of the fall, the confusion of rocky fragments, the age of the trees, all form together a scene that fills the mind with pleasing breathless wonder. Instead of a near station, I chose one where you will reach the bottom of the dingle.

STATION.

Behind some mass of stone, to the left of which is seen the torrent descending from the fall: let the stone hide the intermediate distance from the fall.

This station seems to include all the features, of which the enormous blocks of stone composing the foreground is a very bold and peculiar one.

The view looking down the Rhydoll wears an opposite character of calm grandeur; but freedoms must be used to make a good picture of it. There is a want of contrast; the two side screens meet at a formal angle; and both of them, with the hill in front, are covered with wood: besides, the huge