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ing; in consequence the visitors overloaded with the the greatest amazement; although they are not there now, notwithstanding the place of the rock on which they were growing is to be seen.

A moor, situated above the foresaid cataract, of which a rising part abounded with concavities, existing, in resemblance, to oblong clefts in face of a rock. But whether this convulsion was antedeluvian, or imprest since by the earthquake, it pass the most ingenious idea. But it might be of old a lurking place to a man of incoherent transactions; but partly now filled up with earth and fogs, annihilating them from appearing to external view, comparatively to their primary characteristical, notwithstanding their forms is not out of existence to gratify the desire of the beholders.

Another trait of curiosity worthy of being explicated, that a high mountain, opposite to the castle of Edinample, in which its face a tract of an oblong hollow, of considerable length. The primary source of manufacturing this model is beyond the intellection of many, except where the Roman coalition at their war; but the original existence of these model, partly disfigured in consequence of so many century since it was