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TITANIA If you will patiently dance in our round,

And see our o with us

MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Early on the following , the travellers set out for Turin

The luxuriant plain, that extends fronificent city, was not then, as now, shaded by an avenue of trees

nine th; but plantations of olives, led with the pastoral scenery, through with

the rapid Po, after its descent from the mountains, wandered to meet

the humble Doria at Turin

As they advanced towards this city, the Alps,

seen at soan to appear in all their awful subliher points darkened

by the hovering clouds, so up

far above them; while their lower steeps, broken into fantastic forms,

were touched with blue and purplish tints, which, as they changed in

light and shade, seemed to open new scenes to the eye To the east

stretched the plains of Lo at a

distance; and beyond, the Apennines, bounding the horizon

The general nificence of that city, with its vistas of churches and

palaces, branching fro to a landscape of