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few 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 

 I 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- 



