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 let some pass before they forced themselves upon my notice. At last we came to, where we found an inn, not only commodious, but magnificent.

The difficulties of peregrination were now at an end. Mr. had the honour of being known to the Duke of, by whom we were very kindly entertained at his splendid seat, and supplied with conveniences for surveying his spacious park and rising forests.

After two days stay at we proceeded  over, a black and dreary region, now made easily passable by a military road, which rises from either end of the  by an acclivity not dangerously steep, but sufficiently laborious. In the middle, at the top of the hill, is a seat with this inscription, Stones were placed to mark the distances, which the inhabitants have taken