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Condarena about the same. Upon our approach,
along the plain to the village of Marandocori, a
very delightful scene was enjoyed. The morning mist
had risen from the valley, tinged with the orange rays
of the sun, and climbing gently up the mountain
side, upon which the village stands, had reached the
base of the latter, under which it drew a beautiful
level line, resembling the surface of a lake of liquid
gold, upon which the village seemed to rest.
The calmness of the atmosphere allowed it to
ascend gradually, and still unbroken, when the village
became first obscured, and lastly appeared like a city
sunk under water. This beautiful phenomenon was
watched with singular satisfaction, until the powerful
rays of the sun now increasing in strength, gradually
dissipated the cloud. At twenty minutes ride from
Marandocori, a little plain is crossed producing
corn, at the extremity of which, the most practicable
of the beds of the torrents must be selected, to ascend
the mountain. Upon gaining the top, a little circular
plain is crossed, about one-eighth of a mile in dia-
meter ; the surface is covered with a very red pow-
dery soil, in which are intermixed minute spangles of
calcareous spar, which with the red earth had been
washed down from the neighbouring mountains.
The natives are persuaded that these splendid scales
are particles of silver, and accordingly call the place
—the land of silver. A large village, Porro, is seen
to the right, at a considerable distance and very
elevated, being upon the steep acclivity of a high
mountain. It contains above four hundred inhabi-