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its proper conditions. I have often listened to it, 

 and have been deeply impressed, in a wild, silent 

 country, in a place where herds of semi- wild asses 

 roamed over the plains ; and ' the sound at a 

 distance had a wild expression that accorded 

 with the scene, and owing to its much greater 

 power affected the mind more than the trumpet- 

 ing of wild swans, and shrill neighing of wild 

 horses, and other far-reaching cries of wild 

 animals. 



About the sounds emitted by geese in a state 

 of nature, and the effect produced on the mind, 

 I shall have something to say in a chapter on 

 that bird. 



