Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Travels through Finland - Chapter XIV
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
222 TRAVELS
diftance of a quarter of a league from the village. We had been
extremely anxious to fee a cataract in winter, and that of Yerven-
kyle did not difappoint our expectations.
It is formed by the river Kyro, which, iffuing from a lake of
the fame name, precipitates itfelf through fome fteep and rugged
rocks, and falls, fo far as 1 could guefs, from a height of about
feventy yards. The water dafhing from rock to rock, boils and
foams till it reaches the bottom, where it purfues a more tranquil
courfe, and after making a large circuit lofes itfelf again between
mountainous banks, which are corravadl wih fir trees. That we
might have a more commanding view of the picture, we took our
ftation on a high ground, from which we had a diftant profpe&
of a large tract of country of a varied furface, and almoft wholly
covered with woods of firs, the pleafing verdure of which acquir-
ing additional luftre from the folar rays, formed an agreeable con-
traft-with the {now and maffes of ice hanging from the margin
over the cafcade. ,
The fall prefented us with one of thofe appearances which we
defired much to fee, as being peculiar to the regions of the North,
and which are never to be met with in Italy. The water, throw-
ing itfelf amidft enormous maffes of ice which here and there have
the afpect of gloomy vaults, fringed with curious cryftallizations,
and the cold being of fuch rigour as almoft to freeze the agitated
waves and vapours in the air, had formed gradually two bridges of
ice acrofs the cafcade of fuch folidity and ftrength, that men
paffed over them in perfe& fecurity. The waves raging and
foaming
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
