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few to challenge admiration. The bold mountains of gray 
rock, from which a few stinted fir-trees struggle into the 
light of day above the fissures and dark gorges, are sombre 
to see and sublime to contemplate; and the rivers, tumbling 
down frantically in their narrow passage between high walls 
of solid masonry, would appear frightful did they not contain 
thousands of beautiful salmon and trout, which make their 
way with great assiduity to clear themselves of sea-lice by 
the action of fresh water, deposit their eggs, and, when warn- 
