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the exiftence and wretchednefs of the inhabitants. Bats, 

 owls, vultures, and every bird of prey flutter in the 

 groves ; wolves, tigers and jackalls howl in the forefts ; 

 half-famifhed animals wander upon the plains; gibbets, 

 croffes, wheels, and the whole apparatus of torture, are 

 fcen from the roads; and in the moft difmal recefles of 

 the woods, where the ways are rugged and overgrown 

 with weeds, and where every object bears the marks of 

 depopulation, are temples dedicated to the king of ven- 

 geance, deep caverns in the rocks, and defcents to fub- 

 terraneous habitations, overgrown with brufhwood and 

 brambles ; near which are placed pillars of ftone, with 

 pathetic defcriptions of tragical events, and many horrid 

 adls of cruelty, perpetrated there by outlaws and robbers 

 of former times : and to add both to the horror and fub- 

 limity of thefe fcenes, they fometimes conceal in cavities, 

 on the fummits of the higheft mountains, founderies, 

 lime-kilns, and glafs-works ; which fend forth large vo- 

 lumes of flame, and continued columns of thick fmoke, 

 that give to thefe mountains the appearance of volcanoes. 



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