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Travels and Adventures 



trees of great height and thickness, while those on 

 the eastern side are often only covered with a miserable 

 scrub. It would be impossible to describe the peculiar 

 undulations and deviations of the top of this range of 



THE COCK OF THE ROCK. 



mountains, not a quarter of a mile being level. First 

 we would descend some thousand feet, letting ourselves 

 down by creepers and shrubs as best we could, at the 

 peril of our lives from a fall or from the deadly coral- 

 snakes which lurked on the shelves of the rocks ; 

 sometimes scrambling along; the bed of some mountain- 



