Devil's Bridge, The Falls c.1880
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This view shows the 'sublime horrors' of the waterfall that the first visitors came to see. One visitor wrote in 1797: 'Language is but ill calculated to convey an accurate idea of the scene which is here presented to the eye. The awful height of the fissure which the bridge bestrides a hundred feet above the observer, rendered doubly gloomy by its narrowness, and the wood which overhangs it; the stunning noise of the torrent thundering at his feet, and struggling through black opposing rocks, which its ceaseless impetuosity has worn into shapes strange and grotesque fill the mind with a mingled but sublime emotion of astonishment, terror and delight.'
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