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where we rode among the open bolls of the tions were rare, and wi Y pies on in the’ 
pines, over a oo of bed grass, having | sweet morning air, delighted at eh ur good for- 
strikingly the air of eam grounds. | tune in having found such 2 _deautifal i 
This led us, set a thin mites re of | trance to the mountains 
which had no vegstiBie earth but in | uéd for about three miles, whe we sudd 
hollows and she ae though still the pine | reached its termination in the gran 
forest contin ‘0 evening, w which, at meet the travel- 
reached a d ‘ile, or rather a hole in the | ler in this magnificent os Her the de- 
mountains, entirely shut in by dark pine- hich we had travelled opened out 
covered rocks. into a small bso hao in a little lake, the 
A small stream, with a scarcely percepti- 
ble current, ei hro 
men. 
/ and ravines u 
/ walk by a rion pericsh of ats, many of 
them in full bloo Ascending a peak t 
find the place of our camp, we saw that the 
little defile in which we lay, communicated 
its upward course, it seem- 
ed to conduct, a smooth  peuprow Mee 
direetly toward > pak; which, from 
consultation as we a 
eci 
we ha own. to 
the camp where w iied just in time for 
supper. Our table service was rather sca 
and ld the t in our hands, and clean 
we 
rocks made good — on which we § 
our macearoni. Among all the strange pla- 
ces on which we had comets to encamp 
during our | left so 
Vivid an on my mind as the camp 
sa 
pines where we slept ; nae the rocks lit up 
Tiesagveahreryi isl peewee made a night | 
| red 
{ erer with groupe of flowers of which yellow | 
» was the e 
\ Dar emer occasional difficult pass, 
quently tn: thir. knees ; but» 
- ie ‘bate vo geo the 
view. 
a precipice, and sa 
by throwing h himeclf oe cn eget 
‘our way on a narrow ledge along the 
defile, and the mules were fre- | about Saceioa. nat 
these- -obstruc- 
stream had its s 
h Sind asters in bloom, but \ 
all the dev tin | plait Soaps to seek the | 
shelter of the rocks, and to be of | 
of the winds. Immediate 
ey ee descent led toa gies 
and bef 8 Tose on 
n “the 
It is not by the splendor of far-off 
Ww 
iews which he "tent such a glory to the 
Alps, that these imp he mind; but by a 
gigantic disorder of enormou and a 
of a rich floral beauty, shut up in their stern \ 
om esses. Their wildness seems well suited 
o the Pen mytns of the people w 
edt 
I ieeonned to leave our animals here, 
and 
precip ring 
oade: praan rising fait aie 
hid a succession of others ; 
fatigue and 
erry ig that co eh a 
of ‘the peaks, and i 
out, we wre reached the thro ise ri 
