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t? vifible. I took much pains to fee this 

 " profpecl: to advantage; fat up at a farm 

 "on the weft, till about twelve, and 

 " walked up the whole way. The night 

 " was remarkably fine and {tarry; to- 

 " wards morn the ftars faded away,* and 

 " left a fhort interval of darknefs, which 

 " foon difperfed by the dawn of day. 

 " The body\)f the fun appearing moft dif- 

 " tinft, with the rotundity of the moon 

 " before it, arofe high enough to render 

 " it's beams too brilliant for our fight. 

 " The fea, which bounded the weftern 

 " part, was gilt by it's beams, at firft in 

 " (lender ftreaks, but at length it glowed 

 " with rednefs. The profpect was difclofed 

 " to us, like the gradual drawing up of 

 '* a curtain in a theatre. We faw more 



* By this expreffion, I prefume Mr. P. means, 

 that they were hidden from the fight by intervening 

 clouds. 



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