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 houe to which he was hatening was uninhabited, or that it was denominated the Haunted Catle. His nearer approach dicovered to him that it was untenanted; but his weary limbs required ret, and he therefore determined to pas the night in the venerable tructure. The lat glimpe of clay had fled the ky when Glanville reached the moat, or rather ditch (for it was entirely dry); the banks of which having fallen in, formed an eay acces to the houe. The building was compoed of two wings, or turrets, with a pacious dome in the centre, the door of which time had mouldered into dut; o that, without reidance, the weary traveller was admitted. A rutic kind of noie ucceeded the entrance of the young adventurer, and, for the firt time in his life, he felt an emotion omewhat allied to fear; but his breat, the eat of innocence and virtue, oon repelled the trembling viitor, and aumed its wonted calmnes.

The cautious youth, before he left his parent’s houe, aware that the country through which he had to pas was thinly inhabited, and bare of accommodations, had taken with him thoe implements by which that neceaynecessary [sic] element, fire, is raied into action; and which to a traveller, in a country void of inhabitants, is o very eential. Having, therefore, procured a light, he found himelf in a pacious hall, overgrown with weeds and ruhes; around the walls and ceiling, which were very lofty, the cindering ivy crept; and here the olemn bird of night enjoyed, unmoleted and at eae, her olitary reign, where, flickered from the inclemency of the ky, he built her net and reared her young. The trange appearance of the light alarmed the moping race, who taking wing, fled from their once peaceful dwelling, and this unwelcome guet. The noie which their udden flight occaioned, echoed through the vaulted dome, and again called forth, in the mind of the atonihed Glanville, the tremors of fear, which ubided with the knowledge of the caue from whence the ounds aroe. All was again ilent, and the youth advanced. A flight of teps, riing from the hall, led to the wetern tower;