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NATURAL CURIOSITIES IN NORWAY. 153
A large ship once driven into this stream, was first ob-
served with its prow mounted foremost; then reverted with
its stern uppermost, the surf Hying over the mast-head, and
in a short time seen no more,
From these circumstances, the judicious reader may con-
peive, what a perilous place such a vortex must be in a hard
gale of wind and a full tide ; since even in a calm, when
the current is most gentle, and at the turn of the tide, the
only time the fishermen cun venture near, the boats are
whirled round upon its surface.
A cataract near Gottersburg, is no less remarkable for
its torrent, than the Isle of Moskce for its whirlpool. Here
the waters that run into the sea from a considerable distance
in the inland country, at length arriving at the brink of a
precipice, are from thence precipitated into a deep chan-
nel of their own forming, with a sound at a distance, re-
sembling thunder. This rapid current, the country dealers
in timber, make use of to boat their rafts down towards the
sea. The precipice is so high, and the channel into which,
the timber falls, so deep, that the largest masts are carried
down by the impetuosity of the current, remain at the bot-
tom a considerable time before they re-appear upon the
surface ; some of them are out of sight twenty, some forty
minutes, and others near an hour. It is added, that this
channel has often been sounded, but without any success
jn finding a bottom.
A SINGULAR DELIVERANCE.
(From 3 scarce Black Letter Pamphlet, imprinted in Grfitious Street, London
in the Year 1607 5 concerning the great Inundations.in Wales.]
Among other incidents, it appears in this curious rela-
tion, that a young woman in Monmouthshire, having been
milking, before she could complete that business, she was
nearly surrounded with the waters, that with much dif-
ficulty,
A large ship once driven into this stream, was first ob-
served with its prow mounted foremost; then reverted with
its stern uppermost, the surf Hying over the mast-head, and
in a short time seen no more,
From these circumstances, the judicious reader may con-
peive, what a perilous place such a vortex must be in a hard
gale of wind and a full tide ; since even in a calm, when
the current is most gentle, and at the turn of the tide, the
only time the fishermen cun venture near, the boats are
whirled round upon its surface.
A cataract near Gottersburg, is no less remarkable for
its torrent, than the Isle of Moskce for its whirlpool. Here
the waters that run into the sea from a considerable distance
in the inland country, at length arriving at the brink of a
precipice, are from thence precipitated into a deep chan-
nel of their own forming, with a sound at a distance, re-
sembling thunder. This rapid current, the country dealers
in timber, make use of to boat their rafts down towards the
sea. The precipice is so high, and the channel into which,
the timber falls, so deep, that the largest masts are carried
down by the impetuosity of the current, remain at the bot-
tom a considerable time before they re-appear upon the
surface ; some of them are out of sight twenty, some forty
minutes, and others near an hour. It is added, that this
channel has often been sounded, but without any success
jn finding a bottom.
A SINGULAR DELIVERANCE.
(From 3 scarce Black Letter Pamphlet, imprinted in Grfitious Street, London
in the Year 1607 5 concerning the great Inundations.in Wales.]
Among other incidents, it appears in this curious rela-
tion, that a young woman in Monmouthshire, having been
milking, before she could complete that business, she was
nearly surrounded with the waters, that with much dif-
ficulty,