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water, tlirongb wliich for a time nothing at 

 a distance was visible. When the veil occa- 

 sionally parted the scenery was superb, the 

 Ingour rushing between such narrow limits 

 that, thouo-h we were folio winii a track several 

 hundred feet above the dark green flood, we 

 could toss a pebble from one precipitous rocky 

 wall to the other. 



On either side the ranges of forest-clad 

 mountains stretched awav rido-e behind rido-e 

 to an apparently infinite distance, whilst every 

 now and then from amongst the pines high up 

 on the mountain side, a shaft of grey rock, 

 taking often the outlines of some ruined keep 

 of bygone days, would shoot up many hundred 

 feet above the forest ; so high indeed were 

 some of these isolated spires of rock, that the 

 one or two pines upon their crest looked 

 merely like a bunch of ostrich plumes. 



On our way we saw a strange group 

 of human beino-s on the farther side of the 



