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are with his eyes He waved his hand, and

Valancourt, see to awake from his reverie, returned the salute, and

started away

The aspect of the country now began to change, and the travellers soon

found the mountains covered frolooranite shot

up from the vale, and lost its snowy top in the clouds The rivulet,

which had hitherto acco deeply and silently along, reflected, as in ashades So

its bold head above the woods and the vapours, that floated mid-way down

the mountains; and sometie, over which the larch threw his gigantic ar in luxuriant foliage

They continued to travel over a rough and unfrequented road, seeing now

and then at a distance the solitary shepherd, with his dog, stalking

along the valley, and hearing only the dashing of torrents, which the

woods concealed fro sullen murmur of the breeze,

as it swept over the pines, or the notes of the eagle and the vulture,

which were seen towering round the beetling cliff