a twilight scene folded arms leaned against the lost in that involuntary musing which the sober grandeur of nature commands in the of her children the vast bosom of the was like an mirror reflecting the golden splendour of the heavens excepting that now and then a bark would steal across its surface filled with painted savages whose gay feathers glared brightly as perchance a lingering of the setting sun gleamed upon them from the western but when the hour of twilight spread its magic mists around then did the face of nature assume a thousand fugitive charms which to the worthy heart that seeks enjoyment in the glorious works of its maker are the mellow light that prevailed just served to tinge with colours the softened features of the scenery the deceived but delighted eye sought vainly to discern in the broad masses of shade the separating line between the land and water or to distinguish the fading objects that seemed sinking into chaos now did the busy fancy supply the of vision producing with industrious craft a fairy creation of her own under her the barren rocks frowned awful upon the watery waste in the semblance of lofty towers and high castles � trees assumed the forms of mighty giants and the inaccessible of the mountains seemed peopled with a thousand shadowy beings now broke forth from the shores the notes of an innumerable variety of insects which filled the air with a strange but not concert � while ever and anon was heard the melancholy of the whip poor will who perched on some lone tree wearied the ear of night with his incessant the mind soothed into a melancholy listened with pensive stillness to catch and distinguish each sound that vaguely echoed from the shore � now and then startled perchance by the of some straggling savage or the dreary howl of a wolf stealing forth upon his nightly thus happily did they pursue their course until they entered upon those awful the it would that the gigantic had their war with heaven up cliffs on cliffs and vast masses of rock in wild confusion but in very different is the history of these cloud mountains � these in ancient days ancient s before the poured waters from the lakes formed one within rocky bosom the the rebellious spirits who at his here bound in or m pines or crushed by ponderous rocks tliey groaned for many an age � at length the in his irresistible career the ocean burst open their prison house his tide triumphantly through its ruins still however do many of them about their old and these it is according to venerable legends that cause the echoes which throughout these awful are nothing but their angry when any noise the of their repose � for when the elements are agitated by tempest when the winds are up and the thunder then horrible is the yelling and howling of these troubled spirits making the mountains to with their hideous uproar for at such times it is said that they think the great is returning once more to plunge them in gloomy and renew their intolerable of but ab and glorious scenes were lost tke gallant naught occupied s mind of iron war proud of hardy deeds of arms neither i his honest crew trouble their vacant heads th any romantic of the kind the ot the smoked his pipe x either past present or to come � of his comrades who were not bit g under the were with ten mouths to van who seated i the was relating to them the history of those of fire flies that like gems and upon the dusky be of night these according to tradition re originally a race of who peopled these parts long e memory of man being of that ce emphatically called and who for innumerable sins against the children of en and to furnish an awful warning to the sex were doomed to the earth the shape of these threatening and terrible tie enduring the internal of � e which they formerly carried in their van a and breathed forth in words but now to bear about for ever � m their tails and now am i going to tell a fact which i doubt much my readers will hesitate to but if they do they are welcome not to believe a word in this whole history � for nothing which it contains is more true it must be known then that the nose of the was of a very size boldly from his countenance like a mountain of being with and other precious stones � the true of a king of good fellows which jolly to all who it heartily at the now thus it happened that bright and early in the morning the good having washed his was leaning the quarter railing of the contemplating it in the wave below just at this moment the illustrious sun breaking in all his splendour from behind one of the high of the did dart one of his most potent beams full upon the nose of the of brass � the reflection of which shot straightway down hissing hot into the water and killed a mighty that was sporting beside the by the reflection of his nose vessel this huge monster being with infinite labour hoisted on board furnished a luxurious to all the crew being accounted of excellent excepting about the wound where it a little of � and this on my was the first time that ever was eaten in these parts by christian people when this astonishing miracle came to be made known to peter and that he tasted of the unknown fish he as may well be supposed exceedingly and as a monument thereof he gave the name of s nose to a stout in the neighbourhood � and it has continued to be called s nose ever since 