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eluded that the latter way was the best. 

 She therefore ascended for some time; but, 

 coming to a range of inaccessible rocks, she 

 turned her course towards the foot of the 

 mountain and the river-side : after getting 

 into a deep gulley, and passing over several 

 high steep rocks, she reached the river-side; 

 where, to her inexpressible affliction, she 

 found that a perpendicular rock, or rather 

 one that hung over, of fifteen or twenty 

 feet high, formed the bank. Here a solemn 

 pause took place: she essayed to return, 

 but the height of the steeps and rocks she 

 had descended over prevented her. She 

 then returned to the edge of the precipice, 

 and viewed the bottom of it, as the certain 

 spot to end all her troubles, or remain on 

 the top to pine away with hunger, or be 

 devoured by wild beasts. After serious 

 meditation and devout exercises, she deter- 

 mined on leaping from the height, and 

 accordingly jumped off. Although the 

 place she had to alight on was covered with 

 uneven rocks, not a bone was broken ; but, 



