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Their furprizing, or fupernatural fcenes, are of the 

 romantic kind, and abound in the marvellous ; being 

 calculated to excite in the minds of the fpe&ators, quick 

 fucceiTions of oppofite and violent fenfations. Sometimes 

 the pafTenger is hurried by fteep defcending paths to 

 fubterraneous vaults, divided into apartments, where 

 lamps, which yield a faint glimmering light, difcover the 

 pale images of antient kings and heroes, reclining on beds 

 of ftate ; their heads are crowned with garlands of ftars, 

 and in their hands are tablets of moral fentences : flutes, 

 and foft harmonious organs, impelled by fubterraneous 

 waters, interrupt, at ftated intervals, the filence of the 

 place, and fill the air with folemn melody. 



Sometimes the traveller, after having wandered in the 

 dufk of the foreft, finds himfelf on the edge of precipices, 

 in the glare of day-light, with cataracts falling from the 

 mountains around, and torrents raging in the depths be- 

 neath him ; or at the foot of impending rocks, in gloomy 

 vallies, overhung with woods, on the banks of dull 

 moving rivers, whofe fhores are covered with fepulchral 



monuments, 





