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of the earth, or, pursued by the " gaunt and bony 

 arm" of famine, still wander with fluctuating 

 fortunes over these measureless tracts. For hundreds 

 of miles, therefore, the eye is not greeted by the 

 smallest trace of human industry, or by any vestige 

 of human habitation — the wild and interminable 

 expanse ever presenting the same appearance — that 

 of one vast uninhabited solitude. 



