A short time afterwards we rose to the summit of a round hill, from which we obtained an extensive view on most points of the compass.

We had imperceptibly risen considerably above the general level of the interior.
VIEW FROM THE SUMMIT.
Beneath us, to the westward, I observed a broad and thinly wooded valley; and W.by S., distant apparently about twenty miles, an isolated mountain, whose sides seemed almost perpendicular, broke the otherwise even line of the horizon; but the country in every other direction looked as if it was darkly wooded.

Anticipating that I should find a stream in the valley, I did not for a moment hesitate in striking down into it.

Disappointed, however, in this expectation, I continued onwards to the mountain, which I reached just before the sun set.

Indeed, he was barely visible when I gained its summit; but my eyes, from exposure to his glare, became so weak, my face was so blistered, and my lips cracked in so many places, that I was unable to look towards the west, and was actually obliged to sit down behind a rock until he had set.
Perhaps no time is so favourable for a view along the horizon as the sunset hour; and here, at an elevation of from five to six hundred feet above the plain, the visible line of it could not have been less than from thirty-five to forty-five miles.