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gradually off its fides, afluming here and there 

 wild fantaftical fhapes, fuch as an imaginative be- 

 holder might well convert into monfters with many 

 heads, and mail-clad warriors at hand, St. George- 

 like, to charge with their vizors down, and their 

 fpears at reft ! Or fairer and fofter fcenes the 

 fleecy mift might be made to reprefent, with no 

 great ftretch of mental fantafy either ; the land- 

 fcape, for inftance, with its many fweet accom- 

 paniments of light and made ; or the wide-fpread 

 lake, flightly burnimed with gold, as it juft caught 

 the finking fun-beam ; or trees cluftered thick 

 together, and garnimed with their fummer foliage ! 

 Such, and a thoufand other airy ihapes, might the 

 evanefcent mift be made to picture, as it rolled 

 away, volume after volume, before our eyes. 



Not at all forry were we to find ourfelves, after 

 all our troubles, at the bottom of the mountain fafe 

 and found ; though where the lane we reached 

 would lead us, we were in utter ignorance. 



Moft fortunately the fmoke from a cottage- 

 chimney caught our eyes, and the merry laughter 

 of little children told us that we were not far off* 

 the abode of one who could no doubt direcl: us 

 where to go. What was our annoyance on being 

 allured that we had ft rayed from two to three miles 



