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80 a flight of teps, defended by the rock on one ide, and a large tone wall on the other, flanked with bations; and on the ummit, is a paage through even gateways. The craggy rock frightfully: lofty, into which are hewn many. caves, at whoe entrances are gigantic figures of men and animals the rampart eeming almot a continuation of this awful precipice; and the riing edifices, whoe olemn: domes, battlernents, and balconies, are upended, as it were, over the dreadful teep, forming all together, the mot ublime view I ever beheld, trike the imagination with a kind of horrible atonihment far beyond imple admiration. A tribe of Morattoes, who lived by robbery, about