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64 A TOUR THROUGH
You will begin to think I am in danger
of turning poetical inthese classic fields ;—
I am sure I neither suspecled any of the
mountains we have passed to be Parnassus ;
nor did I believe any one of the nine foolim
enough to inhabit them, except Melpo-
mene perhaps, as she is so fond of tragi-
cal faces : however, I mall now get you
out of them as soon as polsible, and bring
you once more into the gay world. I assure
you, I have often wilhed that you could
have lent me your muse, on this expedi-
tion ; my letters would then have been
more worth the reading ; but you must
take the will for the deed.
After travelling till about midnight, we
arrived at another miserable village, where
we ssept for some hours on draw, and con-
tinued our journey again by day-break.
We had the pleasure of seeing the rising
sun from the top of a pretty high moun-
tain, and were delighted with the prospect
of
 
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