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GORDALE.
and grows more gloomy as we progress. The rocks on each side rise
to an enormous height, and are the habitations of kites and
ravens. At length, on turning round an awful-looking, precipitous
shoulder of rock. the horrors of the dismal gorge, and the almost
closing precipices, burst upon the sight; whilst the din of the
foaming waters, and the rushing of the winds through the narrow
crevice, heighten the terror of the scene, which is still further
enhanced by a cliff 240 feet high, which threatens every moment
to hurl destruction on the heads of those who stand underneath
its seeming-ever-falling bulk. An adventurous person may climb
above the lower fall to another, which rushes from a round
aperture in the cliff above. The whole may also be surveyed from
the top.
The gorge.
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