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[Haswell Taruer]

Der your feet from time to time; the moist and weighty air seems heated
rather from below than from above,--less by the sun than by the
radiation of a cooling world; and the mists of morning or evening appear
to simulate the vapory exhalation of volcanic forces,--latent, but only
dozing, and uncomfortably close to the surface. And indeed geologists
have actually averred that those rare elevations of the soil,--which,
with their heavy coronets of evergreen foliage, not only look like
islands, but are so called in the French nomenclature of the
coast,--have been prominences created by ancient mud volcanoes. The
family of a Spanish fisherman, Feliu Viosca, once occupied and gave its
name to such an islet, quite close to the Gulf-shore,--the loftiest bit
of land along fourteen miles of just such marshy coast as I have spoken
of. Landward, it dominated a desolation that wearied the eye to look at,
a wilderness of reedy sloughs, patched at intervals with ranges of
bitter-weed, tufts of elbow-bushes, and broad reaches of saw-grass,
stretching away to a bluish-green line of woods that closed the horizo
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