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diately above us, and as we rounded the several capes 
or points, roused high expectations of some new wonder, 
or some exquisite picture being revealed as the deep 
folds disclosed themselves to us. Nor were we dis- 
appointed. The wooded hills, with a wealth of boscage 
of beautiful trees, many of which were in bloom, and 
crowned with floral glory, exhaling an indescribably 
sweet fragrance, lifting their heads in varied contour — 
one pyramidal, another a truncated cone ; one table- 
topped, another ridgy, like the steep roof of a church ; 
one a glorious heave with an even outline, another 
jagged and savage — interested us considerably ; and 
the pretty pictures, exquisitely pretty, at the head of 
the several bays, evoked many an exclamation of ad- 
miration. It was the most natural thing in the world 
that I should feel deepest admiration for these succes- 
sive pictures of quiet scenic beauty, but the Doctor 
had quite as much to say about them as I had myself, 
though, as one might imagine, satiated with pictures of 
