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**This description of Ben Vorlich, written ten years before the journey
of the author's brother, Sir. R. K. Porter, into Armenia and Persia, on
her reperusing it now, while revising these volumes, reminds her
strongly of his account of the appearance of Mount Arafat, as he saw it
under a storm, and which he describes with so much, she must be allowed
to say, sacred interest, in his travels through those
countries.--(1840.)
This appearance did not deceive. The whole mantle of clouds, with
which the tops of all the mountains had been obscured, rolled away
toward the west, and discovered to the eye of Wallace that this line of
light which he had discerned through the mist, was the host of Ruthven
descending Ben Vorlich in defiles. From the nature of the path, they
were obliged to move in a winding direction, and as the sun now shone
full upon their arms, and their lengthened lines gradually extended
from the summit of the mountain to its base, no sight could contain
more of the sublime, none of truer grandeur to the enraptured mind of
Bruce. He forgot his horror of the wastes he had passed over in the
joy of beholding so noble an army of his countrymen thus approaching to
place him upon the throne of his ancestors.
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