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but we at length had the good fortune to 
arrive at fome bogs, containing a little mud- 
dy water which the fun had not yet ex- 
haled. 
Here we no longer beheld the magnificent 
country of CafFraria^ and we had entirely 
loft fight of thofe rich paftures, and thofe 
majeftic forefts, over which our eyes had 
wandered with fo much delight. Rocks 
piled on each other and parched fands every 
day fucceeded thofe beautiful views, under 
forms always more hideous. We found our- 
felves every where hemmed in by moijn- 
tains, the fides of which were inclined in a 
moft fantaftical manner, while their peaked 
fummits, fufpended over our heads, filled 
the mind with that profound terror, which 
is the confequence of difcouragement, and 
which awakens the moft difmal remembrance. 
Thofe of Snew-Berg, at the bottom of which 
we now were, role very far above the reft; 
and winter, feated on their fummits, feemed 
to difpute with the fun the fovereignty of 
thefe difmal regions. 
As it was my intention to climb and tra- 
verfe apart of thi- famous cordillera, though 
I knew that the Bofhmen had, like the lions, 
eftabliOied 
