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fe\v to challenge admiration. The bold mountains of gray 

 rock, from which a few stinted fir-trees struggle into the 

 light of day above the fissures and dark gorges, are sombre 

 to see and sublime to contemplate ; and the rivers, tumbling- 

 down frantically in their narrow passage between high walls 

 of solid masonry, would appear frightful did they not contain 

 thousands of beautiful salmon and trout, which make their 

 way with great assiduity to clear themselves of sea-lice by 

 the action of fresh water, deposit their eggs, and, when warn- 



