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Ray, as growing on that rock. A clergy- 

 man of the neighbourhood, who was fo 

 obliging as to accompany me in this and 

 feveral other rambles amongft thefe moun- 

 tains, formed the wild idea of attempting 

 to climb apparently up the face of the 

 precipice, and I, eager in my purfuit, did 

 not object to the adventure. We began 

 our laborious tafk without once reflecting 

 on the many dangers that might attend it. 

 For a fhort time we got on without much 

 difficulty, but we were foon obliged to have 

 recourfe to our hands and knees, and clam- 

 ber thus from one crag to another. Every 

 flep now required the greatefl care, for 

 even the mere laying hold of a loofe ftone 

 might have proved fatal. I had once 

 taken hold of a piece of the rock, and was 

 about to truft my whole weight upon it* 

 when it loofened from it's bed, and I 

 ihould have been fent headlong to the bot- 

 tom had I not inflinctively fnatched hold 



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