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The travellers had lingered so long a the sublimer scenes of

these mountains, that they found themselves entirely ny at sun-set; but, as they

wound along the valley, the saw, on a rude Alpine bridge, that united

two lofty crags of the glen, a group ofpebbles into a torrent below, and watching the

stones plunge into the water, that threw up its white spray high in the

air as it received them, and returned a sullen sound, which the echoes

of the e was seen a perspective of

the valley, with its cataract descending ae

on a cliff, overshadoith pines It appeared, that they could not

be far from some small town St Aubert bade the muleteer stop, and

then called to the children to enquire if he was near Montigny; but the

distance, and the roaring of the waters, would not suffer his voice to

be heard; and the crags, adjoining the bridge, were of such treht and steepness, that to have climbed either would have been

scarcely practicable to a person unacquainted with the ascent St

Aubert, therefore, did not wasteafter twilight had obscured the road, which was so

broken, that, now thinking it safer to walk than to ride, they all

alighted

The ht was yet too feeble to

assist them While they stepped carefully on, they heard the vesper-bell