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faint outline of the Hebrides ; the last flush of crimson 

 has faded from the sky and the twilight is deepening 

 into night adown the valley. In leaving the scene, if 

 I have succeeded in showing how we have it in our 

 own power to quicken the influence of scenery on the 

 imagination, we may I trust take with us the full con- 

 viction that there is no landscape so fair which may 

 not be endued with fresh interest if the light of scien- 

 tific discovery be allowed to fall upon it. Bearing this 

 light with us in our wanderings, whether at home or j 

 abroad, we are gifted, as it were, with an added sense / 

 and an increased power of gathering some of the purest 

 enjoyment which the face of Nature can yield. 



