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light-house Sometimes, too, was seen a sail so distant, that it served

only to mark the line of separation between the sky and the waves

On the other side of the valley, immediately opposite to the spot where

the travellers rested, a rocky pass opened toward Gascony Here no sign

of cultivation appeared The rocks of granite, that screened the glen,

rose abruptly from their base, and stretched their barren points to the

clouds, unvaried oods, and uncheered even by a hunter's cabin

So shade over the

precipice, and here and there a cliff reared on its brow a monumental

cross, to tell the traveller the fate of him who had ventured thither

before This spot seemed the very haunt of banditti; and Emily, as she

looked down upon it, al out from

some hollow cave to look for their prey Soon after an object not less

terrific struck her,--a gibbet standing on a point of rock near the

entrance of the pass, and immediately over one of the crosses she had

before observed These were hieroglyphics that told a plain and dreadful

story She forbore to point it out to St Aubert, but it threw a gloom

over her spirits, and ht with certainty reach Rousillon before night-fall It was

necessary, however, that St Aubert should take so themselves on the short dry turf, they opened the basket of

provisions,