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faint outline of the Hebrides ; the last flush of crimson 

 has faded from the sky and the twilight is deepening 

 into night adown the valley. In leaving the scene, if 

 I have succeeded in showing how we have it in our 

 own power to quicken the influence of scenery on the 

 imagination, we may I trust take with us the full con- 

 viction that there is no landscape so fair which may 

 not be endued with fresh interest if the light of scien- 

 tific discovery be allowed to fall upon it. Bearing this 

 light with us in our wanderings, whether at home or 

 abroad, we are gifted, as it were, with an added sense 

 and an increased power of gathering some of the purest 

 enjoyment which the face of Nature can yield. 



