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the capb of the winds. 
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f ' >n s force, as to wash away all the softer parts, 
places to leave single rocks, of four or five 
1 ■ standing in the centre of the road, and not 
It" to 1 foci asunder. He alighted from his palaii- 
jt . uiB I 1 which were 
f)£ the sublimity of the scene, and entered a 
lunij ® lareest Oriental trees, several 
in tlie stem before a single branch ex- 
tli^' I'olwitlistanding whicli, the descent was so 
frequently on a le\ el with their tops, at 
'r of ^‘■‘’fo''ce as to be able to distinguish them, by the 
numerous torches by which his party was 
but which were insufficient to enlighten the 
canopy cf foliage which for miles concealed 
^'eaven, or the deep gloom of the altyss into 
tll’I’cared to descend. In the day-time the scene 
'^cen half so awful or magniticent. ‘I he 
'inpeded by numerous droves of oxen which 
Che Gant. 
V‘''ispp opening, in a winding part of the 
"foij ‘'.ycd tile lofty mountain the party had descended, 
O' th I ' '“rests nearly to its summit. They passed 
hr*'"'' which at one spot had united, and formed 
surrounding vegetation was richly 
’' ‘iiitr ' branches of the loftiest trees covered 
(^"'1 Vil|,| foe parasitical tribe, llie inhabitants of a 
the centre of this immense fore.st, were 
a'fl "freshing ilicir grain in a truly patriarchal man- 
%' yiii a eartli tlie grain was trodden out by 
'*• *b agreeably to the Mosaical law, were unmuz- 
N f, 
^ Tllji CAPK OF TllII WINDS. 
Mankoop, in the Crimea, is of a very 
su.-^ ^ttignitude, and may be described as being 
. rttiri ,i... t, ,i 
*'*“ clouds. It covers the summit of 
K'Jh itj *!' h'sulatcd mountain, which, from its frightfu,’ 
V-iiily ^“hitude, and cragpr perpendicular sides, inda- 
t)f eveiy other consideration than as a surprising 
“re, hllg ijie mind with wonder on entering tlie 
**" f'cStthir situation, where there are not any 
ot ascent towards the height, and still hiitg 
