button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.26-27
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but few dare venture to the bottom, particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon the flat; nay, the masculine gender are often appalled with a view of the way, and many a swaggering gentleman of Bond Street, in his stable costume, would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand, than risk it having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below.
Several easy descents might be made at no considerable expense, which if well conducted, and the wood judiciously thinned, would give this water-fall, on a comparison with others, that high character it so justly deserves.
The master of the Salutation and the writer, have, years ago, decided on the existing necessity for such improvement, and determined, that while one shall find ways the other shall furnish means; but it has thus far unfor-
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[unfor]tunately happened that the means have been so engaged with spades and ploughs, with halters and horse-whips, as to be unprovided with leisure either to amend their old ways, or to make good new ones.
The falls are four; the stream being divided at the top, produces two upper and two lower ones, and parts of all the four are seen from the foot-path just mentioned; on descending half way, the person arrives at the bottom of the upper, and top of the lower fall nearest the side he stood upon.
The view before him is a pretty little picture: the water in a volume tumbles into a circular bason, from which it again falls over a shelving rock, giving it somewhat the appearance of an artificial fountain; trees project wildly from the encircling walls, which, additionally decorated with grasses, fern, moss, and other plants, give it, by
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