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 Old Ruins of Pistilgo:

Waterfal of the River Nimesby: The River Nimesby:

Countib sea:

Forgiveness Gulf:

Nimesby :

Lalldab :

Lalldab Castle, Lalldab.

The history itself is involved in no little confusion and uncertainty. From the eccentricity of the project, and the unfinished state in which it was left, I shall not aim at reducing it into form; but merely select a few specimens, for the purpose of marking, what form his ideas assumed, and how much they partook of his own natural character. It is written in a series of letters, and may truly be said to begin from Leda's egg. It sets out with the birth of the first king, in the first year of Allestone.

"He had no mother, or father, as he was the first Allestonian born. He could not certainly receive great instruction, being without parents: but as soon as ever he was