Identifier: storiesofpersons00bene (find matches)
Title: Stories of persons and places in Europe
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, E. L. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, London, G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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hat it effected his breathing. He paused, butstill thinking that he could not err in following a straight line over the hillhe went on. At last he saw through the mist some of the immense piecesof granite that he knew to be strewed about the summit. Their appearancethrough the fog was wonderfully grand, wavy, and fantastic, while somesheep, a few yards away, looked like distorted moving masses, many timeslarger than they really were. Every now and then one would start out from England. 103 ;he side of a block of granite with, a screaming bleat, as if it too was filledvith surprise and awe at its strange surroundings. Above, beneath, and all.wound was a flaky mass, and at times even a rushing white fog of no color(hat could be named, a sombre whiteness, a light that was darkness. As he went onward, now among massive fragments of granite, nowamong bogs and rushes, he became impatient to catch sight of some familiarobject^ he quickened his pace ; but the further he proceeded the more did
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DOVER, FROM THE SEA. the fog bewilder him. His eyesight became affected; his brain began towhirl, ^ill at last he sat down utterly unable to walk another step. His situation was now painful. The evening was drawing on, and thefog increasing in murkiness, all hopes that it would clear away had vanished.He was chilled and shivering. Noticing the boggy nature of the groundwhere he was now traveling, he concluded he had gone north instead ofsouth, and therefore turned directly to the left, and went swiftly forward.The ground began to incline. He was descending a hill, and heard the dis- 104 Persons and Places in Europe. tant rushing of water; after stopping to calculate where it could be, hepressed onward, when suddenly, so suddenly that he could compare it tonothing but the lifting of a veil, the fog rushed from him and the scene hebeheld made him almost doubt his senses. At his right, within two or threehundred yards, was the very spot he had quitted when he put up his rod.He had toiled

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