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SCENES IN INDIA. 
Emerging from this valley, we commenced another 
arduous ascent, and although the summit of the hill 
appeared to promise a cessation of our labours, yet we 
had no sooner surmounted it than other hills rose 
before us, thus presenting to our view an interminable 
succession of difficulties. 
So pleased at first, the towering Alps we try, 
Mount o’er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, 
The eternal snows appear already past, 
And the first clouds and mountains seem the last ; 
But, those attain’d, we tremble to survey 
The growing labours of the lengthen’d way, 
The increasing prospect tires our wondering eyes, 
Hills peep o’er hills, and alps on alps arise. 
