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sternness in the lofty background which bestowed upon 

 it almost a character of magnificence. 



"Bodil lies in a little creek, screened by rocky islands. 

 We made our approach in the long-boat, and just as we 

 neared the shore the cutter fired a salute of six guns, and 

 I never saw a finer marine picture than she presented as 

 the engines of ' loud-throated war' threw successively their 

 huge wreaths of pearly smoke over the clear waters, and 

 all the rocky creeks and mountain caverns echoed re- 

 peatedly the voice of thunder. ' Dunmore' seemed highly 

 pleased with this piece of nautical attention, although on 

 these almost unpeopled shores there were but few to wit- 

 ness or to welcome the arrival of the great man. The 

 factor himself was from home, but we were warmly wel- 

 comed by his wife, a handsome woman of excellent 

 manners. She had a fair-haired pretty daughter, of six 

 or seven years old, not unlike what M used to be. 



"We explored the old churchyard and the ruins of the 

 cathedral of Koclil, both that evening and during the 

 earlier part of the ensuing day. There are some curious 

 old monuments, with stony knights in armour, and 

 inscriptions which it is difficult to decipher. It appears 

 from a Latin table that the whole building was restored 

 in 1787, and consumed by fire almost immediately there- 

 after, and then repaired again. For some time after that 

 period it served as the parish church, or at least as the 



