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 daughters to enjoy the company, the dances, concerts and diverions of the place, that they travelled day and night without topping to repoe. It o happened that they entered the Giant-mountains jut at the edge of night. It was one of thoe erene ummer evenings when not a breath of air is tirring; the nocturnal ky was thick beet with parkling pars; the bright crecent, whoe milky light relieved the warthy hades of the lofty pines, and a thouand phophorecent inects that ported among the buhes, conpired, like o many moving parks of fire, to illuminate one of the oftet cenes of nature, though the company in the coach enjoyed it but faintly;—for the eay motion of the carriage, as it went teadily up hill, had lulled mama into a gentle lumber; and the daughters, as well as Mrs. Abigail, had each queezed into a corner, and were likewie dozing. But the wakeful John, who was mounted upon the lofty watch-tower of the coach-box, felt no inclination to leep: all the. II.