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of summer, all is gay; the heat of the sun may at times
incommode, but the lengthened days will afford a few hours for
retirement in the shade, and the evenings are free from the
chilling blasts prevalent at other seasons.- In autumn, the
fields, the woods, and the mountains sides, display their most
splendid variety of colouring, and the air is often favourable
for distant prospects; but the days are somewhat contracted, and
for long excursions more early rising is required.- Even in
winter, the lakes still exhibit the same expanse of water, or
else a glassy sheet of ice; the mountains - whether naked, or
partially or wholly covered with a mantle of snow - still reign
in their wonted majesty; the rocks have lost nothing of their
grandure, and the waterfalls are occasionally rendered more
striking by the splendent and fantastic forms in which their
spray is congealed.
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