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no Fesaro, Fans, Scn'igallia,
worn by such a constant Fall of Water.
It is impossible to see the Bottom on
which it breaks for the Thickness of the
Mist that rises from it, which looks at
a Distance like Clouds of Smoak as-
cending from some vast Furnace, and
distils in perpetual Rains on all the Pla-
ces that lye near it. I think there is
something more astonifliing in this Cas-
cadcy than in all the Water-Works of
yerfailles, and could net but wonder
when I firss. saw it, that I had never
met with it in any of the old Poets,
especially in Claudian, who makes his
Emperor Honorius go out of his way to
see the River Nar which runs just be-
low it, and yet does not mention what
would have been so great an Embellish-
ment to his Poem. But at present I don’t
in the least question, not with standing
the Opinion of some Learned Men to
the contrary, that this is the Gulf thro’
which Firgirs dlcclo shoots herself into
Hell: for the very Place, the great Re-
putation of it, the Fall of Waters, the
Woods that encompass it, with the
Smoak and Noise that arise from it,
are all pointed at in the Description. Per-
haps he would not mention the Name
of the River, because he has done it in
the Verses that precede. We may add
to
worn by such a constant Fall of Water.
It is impossible to see the Bottom on
which it breaks for the Thickness of the
Mist that rises from it, which looks at
a Distance like Clouds of Smoak as-
cending from some vast Furnace, and
distils in perpetual Rains on all the Pla-
ces that lye near it. I think there is
something more astonifliing in this Cas-
cadcy than in all the Water-Works of
yerfailles, and could net but wonder
when I firss. saw it, that I had never
met with it in any of the old Poets,
especially in Claudian, who makes his
Emperor Honorius go out of his way to
see the River Nar which runs just be-
low it, and yet does not mention what
would have been so great an Embellish-
ment to his Poem. But at present I don’t
in the least question, not with standing
the Opinion of some Learned Men to
the contrary, that this is the Gulf thro’
which Firgirs dlcclo shoots herself into
Hell: for the very Place, the great Re-
putation of it, the Fall of Waters, the
Woods that encompass it, with the
Smoak and Noise that arise from it,
are all pointed at in the Description. Per-
haps he would not mention the Name
of the River, because he has done it in
the Verses that precede. We may add
to