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202 A TOUR THROUGH
meter was fallen three degrees below the
point of congelation; and besore we left
the summit of iEtna, it fell two degrees
more, viz. to 27.—From this spot it was
only about 300 yards to the highest summit
of the mountain, where we arrived in full
time, to see the moll: wonderful and raost
sublime sight in nature.
But here description raust ever fall shortj
for no imagination has dared to form an
idea of so glorious and so magnificent a
scene. Neither is there on the surface of
this globe, any one point that unites so
many awful and sublime objects.—The
immense elevation from the surface of
the earth, drawn as it were to a single
point, without any neighbouring -moun-
tain for the senses and imagination to rest
upon, and recover from their astonishment
in their way down to the world. This
point or pinnacle, raised on the brink of a
bottomless gulph, as old as the world, often
discharging
meter was fallen three degrees below the
point of congelation; and besore we left
the summit of iEtna, it fell two degrees
more, viz. to 27.—From this spot it was
only about 300 yards to the highest summit
of the mountain, where we arrived in full
time, to see the moll: wonderful and raost
sublime sight in nature.
But here description raust ever fall shortj
for no imagination has dared to form an
idea of so glorious and so magnificent a
scene. Neither is there on the surface of
this globe, any one point that unites so
many awful and sublime objects.—The
immense elevation from the surface of
the earth, drawn as it were to a single
point, without any neighbouring -moun-
tain for the senses and imagination to rest
upon, and recover from their astonishment
in their way down to the world. This
point or pinnacle, raised on the brink of a
bottomless gulph, as old as the world, often
discharging