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The close of a dull and cheerless day in the last lingering month of wmter, still gave a doubtful light to the sides of a savage and secluded dell, up which a single passenger slowly made his way. He had just landed from a bark that was seen tossing on the waves at a short distance beneath, and which the scanty crew were busily employed in mooring. His tranquil and careless progress along the pathless place, proved that he was no stranger there, though many and weary years had passed, and seas rolled far between, since his foot had been familiar with its ruggedness. This was broken by some small patches of cultivated ground, snatched here and there from the dominion of the rocks and fern coated soil; a few goats and shaggy-looking horses, in all their native wildness, picked up a scanty pasture between the thickets of fume and the straggling beech-trees.
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