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Here Incruftations ftrike the eyes : 

 There fpangled domes, with luftre bright^ 

 Be^m down an artificial light ; 

 "Whence penfile hang, in gothic {hew> 

 D-fcending to the fands below^ 

 Fantaftic forms- 



After contemplating the fine pellucid 

 ftream, and the pendant vaults, the arches, 

 and recefles around, v/e proceeded onwards to 

 a confiderable diftance beyond the rivulet^ 

 until the intricate path became more and more 

 difficult, and the gloomy cavern feemed to 

 clofe upon us in dark, and endlefs deep. The 

 feeble taper now fcarcely illumined the fpoc 

 whereon we flood, while all before us was 

 buried in the profoundefl darknefs. The 

 path grew ftill more uncertain and irregular : 

 here we bent our perfons almoft double to 

 pafs under a rugged arch ; there defcended a 

 fudden fteep ; then, again, we had to fcram- 

 ble up a craggy and projeding mafs : prefcnt- 

 ly we turned the fharp corner of a rock, into 

 a narrow paffage, between huge walls of ftonei 

 next we opened into a more fpacious vault ; 

 foon our way was again confined, or our 

 heads ftruck the hanging petrifadions above. 

 At one moment we trod on the firm rock, at 



