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thrown back, dressed in flowing robes, with a rosary at his side. He forms a peculiar feature in the grotesque scenery with which great part of the island abounds; that immediately around it, consisting of stupendous sterile rocks, detached by deep and frightful ravines, some rising perpendicularly many hundred feet; and here and there are seen bare masses of stone towering aloft, with flowering aloes bursting forth from fissures in their iron coloured sides. I have endeavoured to convey, in the annexed sketch, some faint idea of this romantic though desolate looking valley. Napoleon had heard of the legend connected with it, and asked me if I had ever seen the "Will-o'-the-Wisp," which he was told lighted the old friar's lantern. I said I had been often frightened by it, for when quite a little child, my mother, thinking the air on the mountains purer than that of St. James's Valley, generally sent me thither under the care of an old negro nurse,