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these, most likely, the candelabra or the tamarisk, with 
a sprinkling of acacia. As some obstructing cone would 
be passed, he would obtain glimpses of wide prospects 
of hill, valley, mead, and plain, easy swells and hollows, 
grassy basins, and grassy eminences, the whole suffused 
with fervid vapour. 
These scenes passed, he would find himself surrounded 
by savage hills, where he would view the primitive rock 
in huge, bare, round-backed masses of a greyish-blue 
colour, imparted to them by moss and lichens, or large 
fragments flung together as in some Cyclopean cairn, 
sundered and riven by warring elements. At their base 
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lie, thickly strewn, the debris of quartz-veined gneiss 
and granite and iron-coloured rock, half choking the 
passage of some petty stream, which vents its petulance, 
as it struggles through it to gain the clear, disencum- 
bered valley, and the placid river, guarded by banks of 
slender cane and papyrus. 
And then the traveller would observe that the valleys 
are gradually deepening, and the hills increasing in 
height, until suddenly he would be ushered into the 
presence of that king of mountains, Mount Gordon- 
Bennett, which towers sheer up to the azure with a 
white veil about his crown, surrounded by clusters of 
