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 at once a spectacle both tremendous and pleasing. A summer-house or pavilion is situated over a high rocky bank, that overlooks the Lin, built by Sir James Carmichael of Bonniton in 1708. From its uppermost room it affords a very striking prospect of the fall; for all at once, on throwing your eyes towards a mirror on the opposite side of the room from the fall, you see the whole tremendous cataract pouring as it were upon your head. The Corra Lin, by a late measurement, is found to be 84 feet in height. The river does not rush over in one uniform sheet like the Bonniton Lin, but in three different, though almost imperceptible, precipitate leaps. On the southern bank, and when the sun shines, a rainbow is perpetually seen forming itself upon the mist and fogs, arising from the violent dashing of the waters ."

"The next fall of consequence is the Stonebyres Lin, situated about two and a half miles below the Corra Lin. It is so called from the neighbouring estate of Stonebyres, belonging to Daniel Vere, Esq.; but the grounds adjacent to the fall, on both sides of the river, have lately been feued or purchased by Mr. Dale. This cataract, which is about eighty feet in height, is the ne plus ultra of the salmon, as none can possibly get above it, although their endeavours, in the spawning season, are incessant and amusing. It is equally romantic with the others; and like the Corra Lin, has three distinct, but almost precipitate falls. Wild rugged rocks are equally visible