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spot wherein he carried on his nightly orgies—a superstition giving to an "airy nothing a local habitation, and a name." In St. Helena every cavern has its spirit, and every rock its legend. Napoleon having listened to my legend of the sugar-loaf mountain, said he should regard it with greater interest the next time he rode in that direction.

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