Hibernia Curiosa. A Letter From a Gentleman in Dublin, to His Friend at Dover in Kent. Giving a General View of the Manners, Customs, Dispositions, &c. of the Inhabitants of Ireland. With Occasional Observations on the State of Trade and Agriculture In...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1769 Excerpt: ...very bottom of a lofty semi-circular hill, into which, after a most agreeable ride through a. park well planted with wood, you enter, by a sudden turn round the extremity of one of the curvatures, and at once, unexpectedly get into the midst of a most entertaining scenery of lofty flopes on bh either hand, verdant from ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1769 Excerpt: ...very bottom of a lofty semi-circular hill, into which, after a most agreeable ride through a. park well planted with wood, you enter, by a sudden turn round the extremity of one of the curvatures, and at once, unexpectedly get into the midst of a most entertaining scenery of lofty flopes on bh either hand, verdant from top to bottom, With trees of every Kind. The distant view of this water-fall, at first entering within the scope of the surrounding verdant hills, is inexpressibly fine. A sketch of this most beautiful scene, is given in the! annexed plate. At the very bottom of this sylvan amphitheatre, and in view from your first entrance into it, is seen one of the most beautiful water-falls in Great-Britain, or Ireland, and, perhaps, in the world. It is produced by a small river that rises on the plains or shal-1 low vallies. on the top of an adjacent rangd of mountains above, which have no other1 out-let for the waters, that, from the springs and rains, are collected in these little vallies, but by a descent to the edge of this precipice. Where in the horizontal distance of 50 or 60 feet, it falls at least, three hundred; upwards of two hundred feet of it is visible on the plain below, and is nearly perpendicular, or not above nine or ten feet from the direct. The effect of this small degree of obliquity is extremely fine, for besides the greater quantity of the water that from one small break or projection, to another, is thrown off the rock in beautiful curves, it produces an infinite number of frothy streaks behind the larger sheets of water, which, through she divisions of these more considerable and F 2 impetuous s impeutous falls, are seen running down the rock, in a thousand different and broken directions, at a slower rate, from their adhesion to...
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