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150 LANTHONYr
To this sublime scene may be added accompa-
niments, once familiar, though now for ever
palled away. Monks, of superior piety proba-
bly, had favourite retreats for meditation and
prayer. Perhaps, where some rock projected,
ihaded by foliage, a cross may have marked their
iites; and those repeated at intervals on the moun-
tain's sides. When the vesper-bell tolled, Echo
vibrated the sound throughout every recess, and
the monks might be seen gliding towards the
church; whence, in a few minutes, their voices
issued in deep base, and blended with the even-
song os the feathered choir.
Infinitely grand, aweful, and horrific, were and.
are the convulsions of Nature in the vale of Ewias.
Let us examine their effects previous to the destruc-
tion of the Priory.
The sun shone, the air was calm, and the elec-
tric fluid concentrated in vast bodies above the
mountains. As evening approached vapours
spread beneath the orb of day, and gradually
obseured its splendour as they conclensed. The
observer might perceive that those vapours fre-
quently descended and floated on the mountains :
and, rising again, mixed with the mass, momen-
tarily assuming a darker hue. At length, the
summits are hid, and, the agitation increaling,
many capricious forms appear hovering on the
sides, burying the monastery and the village in
darkness
To this sublime scene may be added accompa-
niments, once familiar, though now for ever
palled away. Monks, of superior piety proba-
bly, had favourite retreats for meditation and
prayer. Perhaps, where some rock projected,
ihaded by foliage, a cross may have marked their
iites; and those repeated at intervals on the moun-
tain's sides. When the vesper-bell tolled, Echo
vibrated the sound throughout every recess, and
the monks might be seen gliding towards the
church; whence, in a few minutes, their voices
issued in deep base, and blended with the even-
song os the feathered choir.
Infinitely grand, aweful, and horrific, were and.
are the convulsions of Nature in the vale of Ewias.
Let us examine their effects previous to the destruc-
tion of the Priory.
The sun shone, the air was calm, and the elec-
tric fluid concentrated in vast bodies above the
mountains. As evening approached vapours
spread beneath the orb of day, and gradually
obseured its splendour as they conclensed. The
observer might perceive that those vapours fre-
quently descended and floated on the mountains :
and, rising again, mixed with the mass, momen-
tarily assuming a darker hue. At length, the
summits are hid, and, the agitation increaling,
many capricious forms appear hovering on the
sides, burying the monastery and the village in
darkness