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MEMOIR OF DR. WALKER. 
cult to extricate ourselves. We then came to a 
chain of small hut steep hills, where the heather 
struck us to the hreast, and which were cut every- 
where with deep glens and gullies, which we could 
not have ascended on the opposite side, without tho 
assistance of the junipers and strong heather with 
which they were covered. 
“ We next travelled along the rocky skirts of 
three or four extensive hills, and came to a small 
gloomy lake at the foot of the highest mountain. 
Upon this side, which was to the south, wo found 
the ascent impracticable, being so abrupt and full of 
precipices, which obliged us to make a circuit east. 
Here we had before us about fifteen hundred feet of 
perpendicular height, and composed entirely of loose 
rocks and stones. They lay upon the side of the 
mountain like a great stream, and upon the least 
motion gave way on all sides, which made our, pro- 
gress both tedious and dangerous. With great dif- 
ficulty we made our way against these hurling ruins 
of the mountains; and at last, after an ascent of 
seven hours, with excessive fatigue, we gained the 
summit. 
“ It was now five o’clock in the afternoon ; the 
day was serene, not a cloud in tho firmament, and 
the atmosphere uncommonly clear; so that the 
view we now enjoyed of tho earth and the seas 
below, made us forget the toil of our ascent. Every 
way we turned we had a prospect of sea and land 
as far as the eye could reach. The sea in many 
places running out into the sky, and in others ter- 
