Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . THE EiNCHAiNTEU iMOuKs. one side a sheet of drapery falls from the top of the tower nearlyto its base, in folds that a sculptor might imitate but could neverexcel. After wandering for half a mile through these subterra-nean halls, where Nature has poured out, with such a full and THE BRIDAL CHAMBER. 95. THE OYSTER-SHELL. unwithdrawing hancV her mingled stores of tlie beautiful, thefantastic, the awful, the sublime, you seem here to have reachedthe culminating point of grandeu
Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . THE EiNCHAiNTEU iMOuKs. one side a sheet of drapery falls from the top of the tower nearlyto its base, in folds that a sculptor might imitate but could neverexcel. After wandering for half a mile through these subterra-nean halls, where Nature has poured out, with such a full and THE BRIDAL CHAMBER. 95. THE OYSTER-SHELL. unwithdrawing hancV her mingled stores of tlie beautiful, thefantastic, the awful, the sublime, you seem here to have reachedthe culminating point of grandeur. Then turn an angle of therock and advance a few paces, when your lights flash upon thegaping oyster-shell. From the sublime to the ri-diculous there is but one step,said Porte Crayon. What anabsurd freak! Mice examined the premiseswith such minuteness that onemight have supposed he was look-ing for the oyster. High! saidhe ; it must a took a monstusman to a-swallered it. But I be-lieves in any thing now, sence Iseen dis place. Here they were informed theyhad reached the end of the cave; and, having refreshed themselveswith water dipped from an alabaster fountain, covered by a trans-parent pellicle of spar, they resumed their lights, and commencedretracing their steps toward the realms of day. On their return they deviated from the course by which theyhad entered, and visited several side rooms, each exhibiting
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