412 A JOURNEY. TO AftW&l I 



formed by jthe union of the bafe of mountains of great height. .-Thofe,. 

 which were principally compofed of fand-iione, had their feet conceal- 

 ed by a large; dope Q^;ta Hone, and their fura- 

 mits were ragged and rapidly breaking down. Of this defcnptipn for 

 the mod part were thole on the left bank ox the river, and their craggy 

 Irregular lops were far removed from the channel... Thofe of the right 

 lMak,werg pdnctpally o;f granite of a green colons where wafhed with 

 fche ; water, and blue* blaclcifh, and brown above. The face of thefe, 

 'though] :,-b-y ■ -far more perpendicular than the other, and, in mod 

 ..in flanges, al.mo.il entirely fo 4 fjiewed manifed dgns of the dellroying 

 . :'po;w'e? -of ithe; weather* Some of the blocks of done, which lay in ; 

 the channel of the river* were of a kind of pudding done, the infulat- 

 ed pebbles being of a reddi ill or bluifh colour, and the cementing 

 -make rial of green granite; were thefe maffes in fituations where they. 

 jgould b@ ; worked, they would furnifh mod beautiful dabs, as their uni- 

 . ob iSjjmqd intimate, and the friction of the water alone has given to 

 many of themj the fmoothed fur face imaginable. At the union of the 

 Miuliwith thqr Hizaangal 9t WG, took. leave of trees; the |dft we faw being 

 birch and fmali fi^s on the right. bank of the Dayli jud after the other 

 drea-m had fallen into it. The clwa^leaof the mountains before and 

 on each fide of ..the dope, on vvfiich we were encamped lad ni^ht,j"s of 

 a, different nature ; though bold in their forms, their outline is round, 

 er, lefs abrupt, and the line of their fummits more continued, and, 

 agreeable^ 



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I awoke at a very early hour and; was immediately Jeized with .digi,. 



culty. of breathing and great QnnjeliO,ri >Jput : 'th^hw^'w%h was 



removed for a few feconds by 'fjg'hing;^ deeply.. Wheaon the point of 



falling aflecp, the fenfe of fuflbcation came on, and the fighing became 



very ftpgmftj and diflrsffingj. however*. as the air became a little warm- 



