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where the high road to Upsala goes over the
Dal-elv, we see from the walled bridge, which
we pass over, the whole of that immense
fall. Close up to the bridge, there is a house
where the bridge toll is paid. There the
stranger can pass the night, and from his little
window look over the falling waters, see them
in the clear moonlight, when darkness has laid
itself to rest within the thicket of oaks and
firs, and all the effect of light is in those
foaming, flowing waters, and see them when the
morning sun stretches his rainbow in the
trembling spray, like an airy bridge of colours,
from the shore to the wood-grown rock in the
centre of the cataract.
We came hither from Gefle, and saw at a
great distance on the way, the blue clouds from
the broken, rising spray, ascend above the
dark-green tops of the trees. The carriage stopped
near the bridge; we stepped out, and close
before us fell the whole redundant elv.
The painter cannot give us the true, living
image of a waterfall on canvas – the movement
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