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is wanting; how can one describe it in words,
delineate this majestic grandeur, brilliancy of
colour, and arrowy flight? One cannot do it;
one may however attempt it; get together, by
little and little, with words, an outline of that
mirrored image which out eye gave us, and
which even the strongest remembrance can only
retain – if not vaguely, dubiously.
The Dal-elv divides itself into three branches
above the fall: the two enclose a wood-grown
rocky island, and rush down round its smooth-worn
stony wall. The one to the right of these
two falls is the finer; the third branch makes a
circuit, and comes again to the main stream,
close outside the united fall; here it dashes out
as if to meet or stop the others, and is now
hurried along in boiling eddies with the arrowy
stream, which rushes on foaming against the
walled pillars that bear the bridge, as if it
would tear them away along with it.
The landscape to the left was enlivened by a
herd of goats, that were browsing amongst the
hazel bushes. They ventured quite out to the
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