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that state of excitement peculiar to landscape-painters 

 when they find themselves in a place full of good mate- 

 rial for study. The foregrounds were excellent, espe- 

 cially the magnificent old trees, and the groups of oxen 

 and peasants in the steep little fields composed in a 

 charmingly accidental way. The worst of it was, that, 

 being anxious to resume my voyage, I had not time to 

 etch upon the mountain ; and the next etching I did was 

 at noon on the following day, when I had landed in a 

 quiet place for lunch, and the canoe lay idly on the 

 water. 



