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h.ill .1 da) .ilon-- ihc sunoundini; hills informed us 

 upon .unv.il ih.il they had mistaken us lor wilt! 

 horses. Wild enough in tiulh \\ < had hern, a-. 

 ( in lr\\ .UK! ShcKhu k, ( )\ Mri catcher, Redshank and 

 Ringed I 'lover, which l.i i led .1-. .1 1 1 ilc to M-I a ("ross 

 ONI wheels, mi"hl have te, tilled. Hut thai is beside 



the point, this furious chasing not l>< -m- the ohject 

 of my query. 



Browning tells us that Cardinal Uembo was the 

 putative parent of a word that has since found 

 accredited status in Italian lexicons, A$olare % to 



ilispoit one-, el! in ill,- open ail . as Urownhu', \\\\ es it, 



was the child of Bembo's adoption; for it \\ a-. 



.said to he deiived hoin Spain, \\heie they still say 

 ON \,'.',/\, to he absolutely ,dt>ne, though 



their asolar is to desolate rather than to asolate, if 



one may -,o expn-.-, \\hal r. otheMvt'.e inexpi cssihle. 

 1 hen- lie-. a( the u>ol o! the idea al'.olute '.ohtiulf, 



l>ut solitude of the open. There lacked still an 



clement in the ( animal'-, rieahon, loi , like other 

 piophels, he !>ictokl what he lealr.ed onlx inp.ut. 

 I do tu>t know who invented the "freewheel," 

 hut he will he eanoni/ed some day, and they will 

 eouple his name with that o! Hemho, the Italian 



Cardinal! and say that what His Eminence conceived, 



he ot the liee wheel in due time* brought forth. For, 



he \\ ho WOVlld g(> (tS<)/<lH(/<> tUUSt needs Inul ahsolule 



deta* hinent ; and it existed not before. 



Take a waste oi smooth, linn sand, sueh as tli.it 



\\huh -t retches here before us, mountain walled sea 



tO left, miles of WJirren tO ri^llt, llat mar.h ahead to 

 the -,k\ hue. lleie is no man, noi any tiai-eol him. 

 II a h-.heiman lands in this solitude at daybreak to 



