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PICTORIAL MISCELLANY. 



overhanging 1 rock at its summit ; but so extraordinarily sharp and knife-like 

 is this, in common with all the rocks in the island, that, when seen end on, as 

 the sailors say, it appears nearly quite perpendicular. In fact, I have seen it 

 in fifty points of view, and cannot yet assign to it any one precise form. 



All our preparations being made, we started, and a more picturesque line 

 of march I have seldom seen. Our van was composed of about fifteen or 

 twenty Sepoys in every variety of costume, together with a few negroes car- 

 rying our food, dry clothes. &c. Our path lay up a very steep ravine, formed 

 by the rains in the wet season, which having loosened all the stones, made it 

 anything but pleasant ; those below were obliged to keep a bright look-out for 

 tumbling rocks, and one of these missed Keppel and myself by a miracle. 



