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unclear passage from Wills Creek thro' the mountain - This is wild, grand & stupendous. The rocks on either side [[unclear: soaring" to many hundred feet in height & crowned & interspersed with pines & other trees. The great variety of unclear: tints? produced by the coming leaves mingled with the sober masses of as yet leafless giants of the forest all harmonized by the clear mellow tone of a golden sunset, the mighty shadows cast by the unclear mountain & the magnificent unclear of the whole scene absobed all feelings of self in admiration of this beautiful work of nature -- Further on the mountains increase in loneliness & wildness the marks of