Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 641
gness on the ten thousand ledges.The air, too, about the precipices seemed to bealive with them. Still we had not the slightestconception of their frightful multitude. We gotabout against the center of the mountain when theswivel was fired, with a reverberation like the dis-charge of a hundred… … ENGLISH PHEASANT AND YOUNG. whole heavens, and their cry was like the cry of analarmed nation. Up they went,—millions uponmillions,—ascending like the smoke of a furnace,—countless as the sands on the sea-shore,—awful,dreadful for multitude, as if the whole mountainwere dissolving into life and…
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