The boiling
whirl of angry waters has well earned its name of cauldron, or
"Chaudiere," but so much of the water has now been drawn off to
supply electricity and power to the city, that the volume of the
falls has become sensibly diminished. I know of no place in Europe
where the irresistible might of falling waters is more fully
brought home to one than at Trollhattan in Sweden. Here the Gotha
River whirls itself down 120 feet in seven cataracts. They are
rapids rather than falls, but it is the immense volume of water
which makes them so impressive. Every year Trolhattan grows more
and more disfigured by saw-mills, carbide of calcium works, and
other industrial buildings sprouting up like unsightly mushrooms
along the river-banks. The last time that I was there it was
almost impossible to see the falls in their entirety from any
point, owing to this congestion of squalid factories.
Rideau Hall, the Government House at Ottawa, stands about two
miles out of the town, and is a long, low, unpretentious building,
exceedingly comfortable as a dwelling-house, if somewhat
inadequate as an official residence for the Governor-General of
Canada.
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