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182 senting to the mind an imagery scarcely more allied to previous impressions of reality there than the fictions of an Eastern tale, or the picturesque disorder of a dramatic scene."

Of the value of the accession of strength which their junction afforded, Colonel Wilks gives the following account: – "The impossibility of relying on such a body for the execution of any combined movement was sufficiently