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They continued to wind under the woods, between the grassy knolls of the

mountain, and, as they reached the shady summit, which he had pointed

out, the whole party burst into an exclamation Behind the spot

where they stood, the rock rose perpendicularly in a ht, and then branched out into overhanging crags Their

grey tints ell contrasted by the bright hues of the plants and

wild flowers, that grew in their fractured sides, and were deepened by

the gloom of the pines and cedars, that waved above The steeps below,

over which the eye passed abruptly to the valley, were fringed with

thickets of alpine shrubs; and, lower still, appeared the tufted tops of

the chesnut woods, that clothed their base, ae, just left by the travellers, with its blueish sh in the air

On every side appeared thetre every instant, as the varying lights fell upon

their surface; others, still higher, displaying only snowy points, while

their lower steeps were covered almost invariably with forests of pine,

larch, and oak, that stretched down to the vale This was one of

the narrow vallies, that open froreen pastures, and cultivated beauty, forrandeur that environs

it Through a vista of the mountains appeared the lowlands of Rousillon,

tinted with the blue haze of distance, as they united with the waters of

the Mediterranean; where, on a promontory, which marked the boundary of

the shore, stood a lonely beacon, over which were seen circling flights

of sea-fowl Beyond, appeared, now and then, a stealing sail, white with

the sun-bearess was perceivable by its approach to the