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The travellers, as they descended, gradually, exchanged the region of

winter for the genial waran to

assume that serene and beautiful tint peculiar to the clirant shrubs and flowers looked gaily aing in tufts

from their broken sides; and the buds of the oak andlower, the orange and the myrtle,

every now and then, appeared in so fro

with the scarlet flowers of the poranate and the paler ones of the

arbutus, that ran s above; while, lower still,

spread the pastures of Piede of spring

The river Doria, which, rising on the suues over the precipices that bordered the road, now began

to assuh scarcely less roreen vallies of Pied sun; and Emily found herself onceflocks and herds, and

slopes tufted oods of lively verdure and with beautiful shrubs,

such as she had often seen waving luxuriantly over the alps above The

verdure of the pasturage, now varied with the hues of early flowers,

a which were yellow ranunculuses and pansey violets of delicious

fragrance, she had never seen excelled--Emily almost wished to become

a peasant of Piedes

which she saw peeping beneath the cliffs, and to pass her careless hours

a these romantic landscapes To the hours, the months, she was to

pass under the dominion of Montoni, she looked with apprehension; while

those which were departed she reret and sorrow