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were so numerous and so voracious, that 

 we had no sooner thrown out the hook, 

 letting it float after the boat, than they swal- 

 lowed it so quick that we could hardly take 

 them out fast enough. The next day how- 

 ever, the sky being very clear, we had no 

 such success. The hook we used was of 

 steel, without any kind of bait, and yet 

 we caught above sixty fish in all. 



Torfiolme, where I now was, is entirely 

 encompassed by lofty mountains covered 

 with snow. Between their summits dark 

 grey clouds were stationed here and there, 

 so that the base of each mountain, as well as 

 the summit itself, was clear. These clouds, 

 or vapours, at length gradually subsided. 



Close to the borders of the bay or creek, 

 are many little sequestered villages scatter- 

 ed among the hills. Each has but a small 

 valley adjoining, and consequently not above 

 a cornfield or two within its district, M-ith 

 a very small portion of pasture-ground 

 attached to each house, though possibly 

 there might be more further off, which I 



