Waterfall and a River Bed Scoured into a Well
Water over a hollow bed rises; striking rock, it carves a pit
Two notes on falling and scouring water. If the river bed over which the water plunges is hollow in the middle, the water arriving from the sides directs itself to that centre and rises up before it falls. If the flowing river strikes against a rock it leaps upward, and the place struck by its fall is hollowed out into the form of a well. Pen drawings show a cascade over an edge at the upper right and a curling current with a small vortex across the middle of the page.
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Fall of water over a hollow bed
If the bottom of the river bed where the water plunges is hollow in the middle, the water that moves in from the sides directs itself toward that middle and rises up before it falls.
River bed scoured into a well by a rock
If the flowing river strikes against some rock, it leaps up, and the place struck by its fall takes on the nature of a well — an observation of the water eroding and hollowing out the river bed.