the sides of the mountains in a thousand little streams. Mr. Cox observes, that this body of water is much more considerable than that of Staubbach, and that the fall appeared quite as high.-SMITH's Wonders. THE ROARING CASCADE, JAMAICA. IN St. Anne's parish Jamaica, is a very remarkable cascade, or, more properly speaking, a cataract, formed by the White river, which is of considerable magnitude, and, after a course of about 12 miles among the mountains, precipitates itself in a fall of about 300 feet or more, obliquely measured, with such a hoarse and thundering noise, as to be heard at a great distance. Viewed from below, the adjutage appears to be a body of water, of small bulk, issuing between a tuft of wood: but, as it continues its descent, the breadth gradually increases, until it reaches the bottom, where it forms a beautiful circular basin, and then flows away in a serpentine course towards the sea. Through the whole descent it is broken and interrupted by a regular climax of steps, of a stalactitic matter, incrusted over a kind of soft chalky stone, which yields easily to the chisel. So vast a discharge of water, thus wildly agitated by the steepness of the fall, dashing and foaming from step to step, with all the impetuosity and rage peculiar to this element, exhibits an awful, pleasing scene. But the grandeur of it is astonishingly heightened by the fresh supplies which it receives after the rainy seasons. At such times, the roaring of the flood, reverberated from the adjacent rocks, trees, and hills; the tumultuous violence of the torrent, tumbling headlong with resistless. fury and the gloom of the overhanging wood, contrasted with the soft serenity of the sky, the silvery glitter of the spray, the flight of birds skimming over the lofty summit of the mountain, and the placid surface of the basin below, form altogether an assemblage of subjects, the most happily mingled, and beyond the power of painting to express. Wild o'er the brim, with many a torrent swell'd, |