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the river, the water was Angularly ftlll and 

 clear, and with its fylvan borders exhibited a 

 novelty of peculiar feature. Its fmooth and 

 lucid furface formed a perfect mirror, fo 

 completely reflecting every thing around, that 

 it feemed difficult to difcover how we were 

 fupported — by what means fufpended, as it 

 were, in the centre of fpace. At the fides of 

 the river no line of termination could be dif- 

 tinguilhed. It was not feen where the water 

 ceafed, or where the land commenced ; but 

 the trees, on each border, being within the 

 edge of the water, were fo diftinctly reflected as 

 to convey the femblance of a foreft, growing 

 upwards and downwards from the fame roots. 

 The boat was reflected in a fimilar manner ; 

 as was likewife the unclouded canopy of the 

 Ikies. The watery medium made no impref- 

 fion upon the eye— but the open azure ex- 

 panfe was feen the fame, whether we looked 

 upwards or downwards. We feemed fufpend- 

 ed in the centre of a hollow globe, having the 

 fame concave arch above and below, with an 

 inverted and an upright foreft on either hand. 

 At one fpot we met a fmall ifland, floating 

 down the ftill river, with a variety of plants 

 and (hrubs growing upon it ; and from the 

 water being invifible, the perfect reflection of 



