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152- LANTHONY.
the windows, interrupted the sounds from the
lips of the priest when he repeated the prayers.
The fin est: {trains preceded the elevation of the
fiost. The priest ascended the steps to the altar;
the monks knelt with their heads bowed on their
breasts ; he turned to the congregation ; incense
arose ; the silver bell sounded—a blue gleam of
intolerable brilliancy illuminated the darker!
recesses of the church ; the diamonds and crystal
around the host sparkled with elemental fire ; the
Saints in the windows beamed with prismatick
lustre ; the tapers seemed extinguished. Then
sable Night, with the horrors of a storm, re-asTumed
her sway ; and the tapers appear, from compari-
son, to the blinded organs of virion, but mere
sparks. In an instant, thunder, with the mouths
of a thousand cannon speaks horror to the heart,
and man trembles at empty sounds reverberated
from mountain to mountain, shaking their very
foundations. The effects of such remote convul-
lions are now distinctly visible; nor are the out-
lines of my imaginary lrorm in the least distorted *.
* Evans's valuable Letters from South Wales, 8vo, 1804,
furnishes the particulars of a real storm, which I mail intro-
duce in his own words. " The mountains from Cregnaulh'n
form a magnificent amphitheatre, with but one apparent
entrance, which is NantTeifi, In this we had to experience
a most tremendous, and truly aweful and sublime phaenome-
non, a thunder-Jicrm avddft the mountains. To those unac-
quainted with Alpine countries, imagination will be able to
form
the windows, interrupted the sounds from the
lips of the priest when he repeated the prayers.
The fin est: {trains preceded the elevation of the
fiost. The priest ascended the steps to the altar;
the monks knelt with their heads bowed on their
breasts ; he turned to the congregation ; incense
arose ; the silver bell sounded—a blue gleam of
intolerable brilliancy illuminated the darker!
recesses of the church ; the diamonds and crystal
around the host sparkled with elemental fire ; the
Saints in the windows beamed with prismatick
lustre ; the tapers seemed extinguished. Then
sable Night, with the horrors of a storm, re-asTumed
her sway ; and the tapers appear, from compari-
son, to the blinded organs of virion, but mere
sparks. In an instant, thunder, with the mouths
of a thousand cannon speaks horror to the heart,
and man trembles at empty sounds reverberated
from mountain to mountain, shaking their very
foundations. The effects of such remote convul-
lions are now distinctly visible; nor are the out-
lines of my imaginary lrorm in the least distorted *.
* Evans's valuable Letters from South Wales, 8vo, 1804,
furnishes the particulars of a real storm, which I mail intro-
duce in his own words. " The mountains from Cregnaulh'n
form a magnificent amphitheatre, with but one apparent
entrance, which is NantTeifi, In this we had to experience
a most tremendous, and truly aweful and sublime phaenome-
non, a thunder-Jicrm avddft the mountains. To those unac-
quainted with Alpine countries, imagination will be able to
form