MOSQUITO SHOR1. to3
 After some trouble, I gained a firm station
 on a tolerable eminence: and without
 resorting to the extravagant and affected:
 language sometimes used on similar occa-
 sions, I might truly say, the whole was
 enchantingly beautiful and picturesque.
 The spot on which I stood might be cow-
 nected with a space of somewhat mor
 than half an acre, entirely clear of trees,
 growing with high and luxuriant grasp.
 Beyond this the whoe .h became a thick
 continued grove,

 -- Where scarce a speck of day
 Falls en the nugthen'd gloom." TuoMsoN.

 At the bottom of the rock, the
sea rolled with loud and haughty
sway: and the confused masses of stone,
which lay scattered about, at once cow,
fessed its uncontrollable dominion.
 Immediately opposite to this part of
the island of Barbarette, at the distance of
about a league, is placed the small adjoin-
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