8o SPORT. 



the depths of the foss — Hke the groans of imprisoned 

 demons — to which a sHght but increasing wind 

 steahng up the valley from the sea adds its melan- 

 choly note. My mind, already deeply depressed, 

 yields helplessly to the influence of the hour and 

 sinks to zero at once ; and despondency — the hated 

 spirit — descends from her " foggy cloud " and is my 

 inseparable companion all the way home. 



