| In another voyage we visited the Upper Lake which is joined to the other by a winding river 5 miles in length and navigable in all places except at an old bridge, thrown across it which occasions a considerable fall: so that the boat is obliged to be hauld under it by ropes, with no small degree of trouble. <br>In our way here we passed under a high mountain calld the Eagles Nest – The echo near here is so prodigious that 2 French horns placed at a proper spot have all the effect of an aerial band of musick & a small explosion of gunpowder from a little cannon is magnifyd into a clap of thunder. The long space between the sound & its return, is a circumstance that renders this eccho one of the greatest wonders of this romantic spot. We dined at [a] small neat little cabbin calld the Slatehouse.– <br>The Upper Lake is 5 miles in length but of no great breadth. The banks have a wild picturesque appearance, but upon the whole it is inferior to the others. At the end is a fall of water that is seen tumbling through the trees from a great hight, it afterwards forms a pretty winding stream and then joins the lake. <br>[Unpaginated] |
