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which the rays of the midday sun were battering
in full force as we passed. The falling water starts
as a blue thread, where the upper edge of the rock
scrapes the sky, then it swells a little and becomes
a snowy streak, the fragments of which almost
float in the air, and wave about in the wind. This
feathery mist gradually diffuses and diminishes
until at last it absolutely melts away into invisible
vapour, the completeness of its dissolution being
proved by the dryness of the projecting rock below,
on which it must have fallen had its liquid state
survived. This evaporation is doubtless effected
by the combined action of the direct sun rays and
the radiation from the dark absorbent rock wall.
I did not notice this before, and therefore
presume that it only occurs when the sun is shining,
as it has been to-day. The sky was clouded when
I walked up this valley in 1856.
There is a path to the Mongefoss, free of course,
though closed by a cattle gate ; but this fall is
nearly as well seen where its waters pass under a
bridge of the road.
My journey over this part of the valley is
doubled, as one of the ladies left her watch and
trinkets at Ormein, and I take a carriole to fetch
it; but before reaching the station, meet a boy
strutting along the road with the chain round his
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