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is there too that man, resisting the revolutions 

 of lower regions, retains through innumerable 

 years his habits and his rights. While a mul- 

 titude of changes has remoulded the people 

 of Europe, while languages and laws and 

 dynasties, and creeds, have passed over it like 

 shadows over the landscape, the children of the 

 Celt and the Goth, who fled to the mountains a 

 thousand years ago, are found there now, and 

 show us in face and figure, in language and 

 garb, what their fathers were ; show us a fine 

 contrast with the modern tribes dwelling below 

 and around them ; and show us, moreover, 

 how adverse is the spirit of the mountain to 

 mutability, and that there the fiery heart of 

 Freedom is found for ever. 



Swallows now betray symptoms of their ap- 

 proaching departure, flying in large flocks, set- 

 tling on the ground in the fields in vast numbers, 

 whither the increasing dullness of the air has 

 driven the flies, or clustering on the tops of 

 houses, or the dead boughs of trees, making a 

 low universal sort of warble. The Robin renews 

 his note, the stone-curlew clamours at the begin- 

 ning of this month, wood-owls hoot, hares con- 

 gregate, and young blackbirds and thrushes may 



