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 rivers, the largest not exceeding 50 yards in breadth, and very few of them above twenty. The Clyde in Scotland is a large river for that country, but the fall is not great.

The celebrated falls of Tivoli, near Rome, upon which so many pencils and pens have been employed, are formed by the descent of the headlong Anio, (Strabo, lib. 6, 364,) as the Cascata del Marmore of Terni is by that of the Velino. See Lord Byron's Childe Harolde, canto 4, stan. 69.

Modern travellers inform us, that the cataracts of the Nile are not precipitous, but that they merely pour down a rocky declivity, not much exceeding in steepness some of the rapids of America.

Alluding to the celebrated Colossus at Rhodes, a brazen statue of Apollo, 105 feet high.

Meaning the federative principle, by which so many states and territories have been, and so many more may be added to the American union.