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Der Staubbach
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Miscell. Subj. LXX. Vol. VI. No. 4., THE STAUBBACH., \Jne of the most remarkable, celebrated ling-white, continually fhifting form in the and frequented cascades in Switzerland is the air. About noon, when the fun-beams ftrike Staubbach in thé no lefs Fig. nal valley of Lau- this tumbling water, the beauty of this gloterbrunnen, in the Canton of Bern. This rious fport of nature reaches the higheft deStaubbach precipitates iifelf near the village gree; and coming nearer you behold in it of Lauterbrunn, over the fteep rocky wall of two circular rainbows. There is no danger, the mountain of Piateli, about 900 feet from to place himfelf between the rocky wall, and on high. It forms in fact two cascades, one the upper water-fall; the only inconvenient, above the other; the upper Fig.. 1.) falls in one undergoes, is to be wetted by the fpoua rocky bafon, out of which the water fpouts ting water. In the winter one perceives in again, and forms the lower cascade (Fig.. 2.). this Staubbach quite lingular and curious At this fall the water is in the air diffolv'd figures of ice. More upwards it forms yet into the fineft duft (from whence the name other fplendid waterfalls, but not fo high, of Staubbach) waving as an etherian, dazz
