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 ¬them, without any apprehension of that kind of concert. ¬The senses, however, might be said, to have been in full harmony ; as the sight of the motley beasts, with the noise and smell, in such an equal and happy combination, could not but pre- vent their being jealous of one another. ¬We now retired to the inn for the night, and in the morning pursued our journey. — Nothing remarkable occurred till the day following, when, soon after sunrise, there suddenly burst upon us, from the summit of a commanding eminence, so sublime a spectacle in the distant view of the Capital, that I thought a second time our immortal poet must have been here be- fore me and described it : — ¬" When, by break of cheerful dawn, ¬He gain'd the height of a high climbing hill, Which to his eye discovers, unawares, The goodly prospect of a foreign land Just seen, and its renown'd metropolis, With glittering spires and pinnacles adorn'd, Which now the rising sun gilds with his beams." ¬On ¬