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from my seat is reversed.  The canon is all gloom and shadow + turning above it stands our ruin.  A silver gray mass resting in the dark red rock beneath.  Projecting headlands [[then?]] deep shadows and form the buttresses supporting the main mass.  This is a thousand feet higher and twice or thrice as long.  How small it looks two miles away its base a half a mile above the river.
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The canon is far more impressive to me now than on first acquaintance.  Its great proportions and ever changing features as it is seen from different points at various hours of the
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