Nor should it be forgotten, that we are sensible of motion when there are objects to resist, or when they are approached or left behind; but here, as all things move with us, and that with perfect smoothness and freedom from whatever is opposing or jarring, we are without any ordinary means of bringing before us the fact.

What a splendid object is the rising sun! It is so in our own land, yet it is still more so when the traveller in Italy beholds the morning dawn, and the ascending orb shedding over the Sabine mountains a rich glow, gradually softening, as it becomes more distinct, into purple, lining with gold a few fleecy clouds which strew his path, and at length pouring a stream of the brightest saffron over all the eastern sky. Even in our northern climate, the tints that gild the clouds are as rich and varied as can well be imagined, but the deep purple distances of the horizon, and the gleaming yellow of the firmament, in Italy, far surpass ours in hue and splendour, and produce that lucid atmosphere so long noticed and admired. "In the contemplation of this beautiful and ever-varying phenomenon," says Eustace,

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we drove on till we reached the first post, and then enjoyed the glories of the rising sun, till, concealing himself in a golden-fringed cloud, as in a chariot, he darted his rays from behind it, and set the whole firmament in a blaze."

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