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who conducted fresh travellers to the Hell Fall,
to the iron-bridge island, and to the inn. I
sat here, and turned over the leaves of books,
collected here through a series of years, in
which travellers have inscribed their names,
feelings and thoughts at Trollhätta – almost
always the same astonishment, expressed in
different languages, though generally in Latin:
veni, vidi, obstupui.
One has written: "I have seen nature’s
master-piece pervade that of art;" another
cannot say what he saw, and what he saw he
cannot say. A mine owner and manufacturer,
full of the doctrine of utility, has written:
"Seen with the greatest pleasure this useful
work for us in Värmeland, Trollhätta." The
wife of a dean from Scania expresses herself
thus. She has kept to the family, and only signed
in the remembrance book, as to the effect of her
feelings at Trollhätta. "God grant my brother-in-law
fortune, for he has understanding!"
Some few have added witticisms to the others’
feelings; yet as a pearl on this heap of writing
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