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along slowly with horses and carriages on the
great ferry-boat, away over the rapid current
under Bålstad’s picturesque shore. Here the
elv widens and rolls its billows majestically in a
woodland landscape, as large and extendcd as if
it were in North America.
We see the rushing, rapid stream under
Avista’s yellow clay declivities: the yellow
water falls like fluid amber in picturesque
cataracts before the copper-works, where
rain-bow-coloured tongues of fire shoot themselves
upwards, and the hammer’s blows on the copper
plates resound to the monotonous, roaring
rumble of the elv-fall.
And now, as a concluding passage of splendour
in the life of the Dal-elvs, before they lose
themselves in the waters of the Baltic, is the
view of Elvkarleby Fall. Schubert compares it
with the fall of Schafhausen; but we must
remember, that the Rhine there has not such a
mass of water as that which rushes down
Elvkarleby.
Two and a half Swedish miles from Gefle,
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