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which had SgttM £ 8 $ c < Wfl ? c <* 4 intq t } i £ Solidity P * rpcks , myself $ R d * MpU <^^ littfe tpw n of ? * 1 It steads on 9 , perfectly level pUw , which is barriered on
every sjide fey si mgge 4 ^ l }» P P W (?^ Pe P * n 4 . ? of ffifl f As f ^ town stands faj- frpip tfie plpjn ' s centre ; , SQi * ie qf the biJJs are immediate $ p 4 fffstinct ; J ; he greater distance of the other side pf the periphery $% ve evp * i the > vh } te ^ povv ^ , with which the hills were covered entirel y ( spying w }\ ere the tl ^ o ^ sands am } tens of thousands of pinnaeJiQff ffrq dotted the expanse witH green or fcjj ^ ck ) , ^ d ^ rk and fyazy ccaourjiig . Betwee ^ those clistapt hill * and the plain it is in
lies the nohle river ^ perhaps the grandest tlie whole world , ovpr vvl ^ ch y ? f had nowi > ^ few hour § before . On qx \ e s \<\ e of the town run ^ the riyer of disputed Raines , tributary to tfye l ^ rgef , and mpre y ^ li ^ ed for its porjunercial conveniences , than fox its naipal l ^ pa-uties ; jvliicli , howeyer , are far from being fe ^ r , or undeserving a scpne love f $ attention , though at the time to which I \
^ m referring , niost of those he ^^ jes yere enveloped m a positive , re $ plute , con ^ rmed wintry g ^ rh - E ( uts , cqttageg , r ^ ou ^ es , the church , roads , streets , fields , —every where was a region of snow an $ ice . < The ice waa here , the ice was tter ^— - The ice was all around . '
On the day previoiis , a copioua visitation of sleet had arrived to assist in decorating th& ^ cene : the tru nks , stems , and branches of the trees were encased in glassy congelation , and from them millipns of pendulous crystals jingling swung , and sparkled , and glittered , and delighted and bewitched the eyes with their profusion of prismatic glories ; hundreds , thousands of them were every
moment ringing against each other , breaking " , falling , dropping , and throwing through the bright air such delicious , gentle music —hosts of happy elfin things striking their cymbals in joyous holiday . But ' it was exquisitely cold ; a fact of which my formidable wrapping would have left me in ignorance , had not a little disorder in roy neck gear called one hand out of iu snug beaver mitten tp &et it ri ^ ht . The action did not occupy many seconds , but it wa « sufficient to tell me , to the very marrow , how
cold was the air . On all was winter , glorious winter ! except the smoke wV ^ wh graciously curled and danced in circling and wavy Wreaths from many a snow-coated chimney . And our appetites htul by this time whetted themselves into a keenness moat enviab le ; for the ideality of something reeking savorily below that
smoke made appetite particularly capable . ' I am quite pure * pared for any thing they cam g ive ua to eat , if it be but the hoof of a horse / « id I to roy frien % * I trust we shall find something ^ we psdatahta and e ^ aier of mastioatioB than a hotWs hoof / he replied . i You may eat & good dinner in imagination , the best your poetry c ^ n spread out , and wton you com * to the reality you thtU find that to hi auto m goad / > $ y companion knew very
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 795, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/49/
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