Cataract | waterfall | Britannica (original) (raw)

Rhine Falls Rhine Falls, on the upper Rhine River near Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

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cataract, a waterfall (q.v.), especially one containing great volumes of water rushing over a precipice.

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