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… Porch or Entrance) a Town scituated at the foot of the Mountain. Hence hiring an honest Country-man, for a true and skilfull companion, and guide of the wayes; (not without indeed an ample reward) I ascended the Mountain at midnight, through difficult, rough, uneven, and steep passages. At whose crator or mouth, when I arrived, I saw what is horrible to be …
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