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 ¬climates,) rising in an ascending scale to the lofty summit of what un wooded would have been a precipice, the whole prospect was on a sudden reflected back again, as if by a thou- sand mirrors, from the transparent surface of a splendid lake, which stretched itself out beneath our feet to a vast extent, until it was lost in the distant woods. I stood for a while motionless, and exclaimed aloud to my amazed companion, in a voice of admiration and transport, — " Where am I? What is it I see? Was Milton brought here in vision, or actually like myself, when he described the primaeval paradise of our world ?" I shall insert my whole soliloquy, though it makes me appear myself in the character of the Devil: — ¬" So on he fared, and to the border came Of Eden, whose delicious paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, -Cedar, ¬