LETTER VI. 



69 



to enjoy the u\ confusion. When 



watching them on one of these occa- 



sions, I had to take shelter under a rock from a 

 dreadful blast, accompanied by very heavy snow, 

 which in a moment blotted out the whole land- 

 scape ; everything was enveloped in a shroud of 



mist and driving sleet ; 

 the intense gloom 

 phant song of these 

 above the uproar 

 when the mist 

 the whole flock 



but from the midst of 

 there arose the trium- 

 wild creatures, rising 

 of the elements ; and 

 lifted, I beheld 



