ENCHANTED COAST. 



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nacles; while others, subjected to one or two 

 reflexions, exhibited large masses of rock, ap- 

 parently suspended in the air, at a considerable 

 elevation above the actual termination of the 



Fig. 34. 



mountains to which they referred. The whole 

 exhibition was a grand phantasmagoria. Scarcely 

 was any particular portion sketched before it 

 changed its appearance, and assumed the form 

 of an object totally different. It was perhaps 

 alternately a castle, a cathedral, or an obelisk ; 

 then expanding horizontally, and coalescing with 

 the adjoining hills, united the intermediate val- 

 leys, though some miles in width, by a bridge of 

 a single arch, of the most magnificent appearance 

 and extent. Notwithstanding these repeated 

 changes, the various figures represented in the 

 drawing had all the distinctness of reality ; and 

 not only the different strata, but also the veins of 

 the rocks, with the wreaths of snow occupying 

 ravines and fissures, form sharp and distinct lines, 



