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Title: Mountain adventures in various parts of the world
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Headley, Joel Tyler, 1813-1897
Subjects: Mountaineering
Publisher: New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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godawaits her with his furies, his delirium, his tortures,and his obscure lies. This recollection is the onlyone which vividly strikes the mind when you stopat Delphos. All around are abysses, half open andyawning gulfs, resounding echoes, rocks blackenedas if by fire : such was, and such is still, the valleyof Delphos. If the riches and the magnificence destined toveil the terrible mysteries have disappeared, Natureis there just the same. Now, as formerly, thePhocean, who comes to dream, to seek the shade,or to gather flowers, must pass over to the otherside of Parnassus, in order to find the greenand melodious forests of Daulis. Some olive-treesgrow in the hollow of the valley at the outlet fromwhich they become more abundant, until they forma great wood on the plain, which extends to thegulf. In the night, if you awake, you hear the windwhich comes ceaselessly from the sea, and beatsagainst the sides of the rocks, making most lugu-brious noises; and yet, at some paces from thence,
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PABNASSUS. 20J in the bay and on the banks of Crissa, the samewind sings or sighs in soft and melancholy tones.At Delphos, it becomes a dull groaning, a pro-longed plaint, which fills the soul with sadness, andmakes you fear, when you listen to it, that theancient oracle may have recovered its voice, inorder to reveal to you the future which lies before vou. «/ Y. Gemeniz, Voyage en Greece. The Greeks have placed the dwellings of theMuses, that is to say, the source of poetical inspira-tion, as well as the dwelling of the gods, on thehighest summits,—there where earth seems to touchheaven. The Muses haunted Olympus, Pieria,Helicon, and, above all, Parnassus. Parnassus is one of the most beautiful mountainsof Greece; on its snowy summits walked the chasteMuses in their purity ! The summits of Parnassusare often enveloped in clouds. Who ever sawLiakoura without clouds ? said Lord Byron. Thispeculiarity agrees with the destiny which ancientmythology attributed to the holy mountain. Th

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