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186 THROUGH NORWAY WITH A KNAPSAClv.
and light that it struggles even with the slight
resistance of the air, it descends with slow, unvarying
speed some four or five hundred feet more ; then it
showers upon another slope of rock, spreads into a
multitude of little rills, and disappears again, till at last
it rushes under the road to join the Rauma, and keep its
company to the all-absorbing sea.
This foil, to my taste, is far finer than the Staubbach:
it does not shoot forward, clear of the rock in one leap;
but its beauty is rather increased by this. Both in
height and quantity of Avater it is far superior to the
Staubbach. Omitting the first fall into the upper basin,
and only considering that portion which is seen falling
down the face of the rock in a continuous mass of
broken Avater, it must be someAvhere about a thousand
feet in height.
I am aware of the difficulty of judging the relative
merits of waterfalls—especially such falls as these—for
they depend so much upon the circumstances of the
Aveather. Doubtless, I saAv the falls of the Romsdal
under their most favourable aspects, so much rain
having recently fallen ; but this is no rare case, for,
according to current report concerning the meteorology
of the mouth of the Romsdal, it rains on an average
somewhere about always.
In nearly all the breaks and IioIIoavs of the black
precipitous rocks are patches of sno\ar, some of them so
Ioav as almost to touch the corn-fields ; for amidst all
this savage sublimity there are rich substantial farms.
These farms are due to the table-lands of the terraces,
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