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cause. Whoever takes a walk into these scenes, must return
penetrated with a sense of the Creator's power, in heaping
mountains upon mountains, and enthroning rocks upon rocks. Such
exhibitions of sublime and beautiful objects cannot but excite at
once both rapture and reverence.
When exercise and change of air are recommended for health, the
convalescent will find the latter here in the purest state, and
the former will be the concomitant of the tour. The many hills
and mountains of various heights, separated by narrow vales,
through which the air is agitated and hurried on, by a
multiplicity of brooks and mountain torrents, keep it in constant
circulation, which is known to add much to its purity. The water
is also as pure as the air, and on that account recommends itself
to the valetudinarian.
As there are few people, in easy circumstances, but may find a
motive for visiting this extraordinary region, so more especially
those who intend to make the continental tour should begin here;
as it will give, in miniature, an idea of what they are to meet
with there, in traversing the Alps and Appenines; to which our
northern mountains are not inferior in beauty of line, or variety
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