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gashes in the laughing ripples that flickered brilliantly in the line of the moon's wake , which set all objects within its range as distinctly clear , as if it were mid-day ' s brightness . * Largo—largo V However ,
we were now nearing the point of debarkation , and rounding the promontory , Pietro was at once relieved , for we were instantly in deep shadow . Silently the muffled oars were tossed out of their rowlocks , and quietly boarded ; and the bowman , alternately shoving- and hauling upon his boathook , carried the boat into the little creek which indented the line and base of the rock , and was as smooth as the water
in a deep well . A snug little cove it was , where a boat might lie unperceived and unsuspected of being there for a month on occasion * After landing ( Pietro piloting ) we traversed the strip of sand , not two feet broad , which fringes the base line of the rocks , for a few steps , and then scrambling upwards , verging starboard and port as the hand
and footholdingrequired , gained the top . The course to our object , which was not visible from this point , was about S . E ., but by taking that , we should have been exposed to observation on its elevated surface , and must necessarily have passed by several buildings which Jay between our place of landing , in line with the amphitheatre . So Pietro took a broad sheer to the N . E . and held on , with little variation from
that course , for about half an hour ; myself and Nourse picking our steps after him in silence . Now vegetation began to thicken , and we waded through a brook that babbled most musically in the stillness of the night , while the moon washed her face in it . On getting across we veered suddenly to the south , and plunged through a thicket into a .
footpath , which ran through what seemed to be a domain of garden and pleasure grounds in ruins , overrun with brambles ; yet at every step shrubs and flowers wafted to the senses various and mingling perfumes : and now , turning westward a little , we rose on a gentle hill , which exhibited masses of broken walls , and down on its other brow
a rooflesB , fragment-bestrewn mansion , dreary , solemn , and desolate in the midst of so much beauty : for from this point was seen , a little to the left of the distance , not the entire outline , part of it was hidden by a hill , the dark grandeur of the amphitheatre , towering in stately sublimity 3 and between the trunks of the trees , and up through foliage at their topmost branches , directly before and outspread below , the Bay of Pola , and the Adriatic , burnished with a line of silver ,
shivering and flashing , as the young waves danced upon it . Stepping among the ruins , which straggled out to some distance from the main building , we fell again into the path , which continued for about half a mile by what seemed to have been the course of a stream , though it waB now filled or choked up with weeds and'debris , and suddenly terminated in a precipice about twenty feet in height . On the side of this precipice , halfway down , a rock or ledge apparently projected , but
a closer inspection discovered it to be a natural basin , starting from th # e face of the rock . It bore marks of the chisel , for its rim was sculptured ornamentally , though the work was so much worn and decayed a « to be , in the shadow , scarcely perceptible . Pietro called this * the Dried Font . ' As this was not our present object we descended the slope ( which had evidently been cut into steps ) by the side of the precipicei tind stood * moment on the margin of the hollow , into which
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636 Autobiography of PeL Verjuice .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1833, page 626, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2622/page/42/
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