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eighty-two feet in height, according to Murray. The
river is ahout 400 feet broad, and of considerable depth.
These falls are rather like those of the Clyde, but much
finer. I think them equal to Schaffhausen, with the
exception of the effect from that gallery built right into
the falls of the Rhine.
There is a good point of view from a square stone
platform at the first fall, just where the river bends in a
glassy wave before the wild turmoil of the fall begins.
There is another natural platform at the second fall,
about two-thirds from the top; and from this point it is
magnificent. The quantity of water thrown up by the
rebound of this fall is remarkable; not merely spray,
but tons of shattered water rise nearly as high as the
point from which they fell, with a cloud of spray high
above them. There was, unfortunately, no sun to show
the iris.
The water of this fall is not all running to waste; a
portion is doing the stamping, jigging, huddling, kieving,
&c. of the copper-works close by, where all the
processes from the crude ore to the sheet metal are
carried on.
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