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Reichenbach Falls

From Sherlock Holmes Encyclopaedia
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Sherlock Holmes and the Professor Moriarty struggling next to the waterfalls by Sidney Paget
Reichenbach Falls
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“We had strict injunctions, however, on no account to pass the falls of Reichenbach, which are about halfway up the hill, without making a small detour to see them.
It is, indeed, a fearful place. The torrent, swollen by the melting snow, plunges into a tremendous abyss, from which the spray rolls up like the smoke from a burning house. The shaft into which the river hurls itself is an immense chasm, lined by glistening coal-black rock, and narrowing into a creaming, boiling pit of incalculable depth, which brims over and shoots the stream onward over its jagged lip. The long sweep of green water roaring forever down, and the thick flickering curtain of spray hissing forever upward, turn a man giddy with their constant whirl and clamor. We stood near the edge peering down at the gleam of the breaking water far below us against the black rocks, and listening to the half-human shout which came booming up with the spray out of the abyss.”

John Watson describing the falls [1]

The Reichenbach Falls are a place and central setting of the 1893 short-story "The Adventure of the Final Problem". It is waterfalls located in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland.

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