O EXCURSIONS ROUND LONDON, 



necessary that I should study not only my 

 ov.-n faculties, but the relation in which 

 they stood to sensible objects. 



One morning, before sun-rise, I repaired 

 to an eminence, whence my eye surveyed 

 the immensity of the horizon. Some stars 

 of die first magnitude still shed a feeble light. 

 The darkness began gradually to decline to- 

 ward the west, while the pale azure circle 

 on the eastern side of the heavens was gra- 

 dually extended. By degrees the horizon 

 became of a beautiful red ; the clouds dis- 

 played the most lively and variegated colors; 

 and t':c light vapors, which floated in the 

 east, assumed a golden hue. The increase 

 of the dawn every moment added to the 



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maori licence of the spectacle ; till at length 

 the first rays of the sun gilded the summit 

 of the mountains. That glorious luminary 

 of day dispelled the tints of Aurora, and 

 advanced into 'the heavens with dazzling 

 majesty. 



I acknowledge that the sight of such a 



sublime 



