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 flew away she would carry me out of this desert island ; and having passed the night in this condition, the bird flew away the next morning, and carried me so high into the air that I could not see the earth; and suddenly descended so swift, that I lost my senses. On coming to myself, and finding the Roc on the ground, I speedily untied the cloth which bound me to

her leg, and the bird, having taken up a large serpent in her bill, again flew away. As I paced up and down the valley, musing on my hard fortune, I observed that the ground was strewed with diamonds of a surprising large size. I took great pleasure in looking upon them, but I saw such objects as I could not behold without terror and dismay; these were serpents peeping out of the holes in the rocks. I had heard of the famous Diamond Valley, and the strata-