'Dashed in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft
A living mist and forms a ceaseless shower.'
In the sun, tiny rainbows form, as different points of view are taken.
The deafening roar of this grand cataract rises and falls in a
singular way, as if every slight inequality in the volume of the river
could be detected. The note is low and grand, so that the sound of the
human voice, shrilly set above its deep diapason, is easily heard, and
conversation can be quietly carried on. As in all great waterfalls,
the impression is deepened and strengthened by familiarity. For one
minute the feeling may arise 'is that all'--the next, the grandeur of
the scene has won its way to the mind and taken captive the
imagination. Sit for an hour and the feeling will grow, while to
revisit it day after day for a week will intensify wonder and
admiration at the marvellous scene. Does it plunge and roar thus, year
in, year out, day and night, continuously? Is there no pause, no rest,
for the tost and troubled water--no quietness for those reverberating
rocks that stand around in awe of the ceaseless and giant power that
has so eaten its way into their hearts?
Everyone who visits Corra Linn walks through the ground to Bonnington
Linn, which from the Corehouse side is seen in face, the water
plunging over in two streams divided by an island. If these falls are
approached on the Bonnington side, the visitor sees Corra Linn in
face, can descend (by a steep descent) to the bed right under the
fall, visits the Wallace Cave where the river roars through a gulley
only a few feet wide, and may cross by an iron bridge to the island in
the middle of Bonnington Linn.
STONEBYRES FALL.
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