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in flocks, and fall down suffocated by the
smoke ; the animais flee, or, encircled by the fire,
are consumed in it! Hear their cries and
roars of agony! The howling of the wolf and
the bear, dos’t thou know it? A calm, rainy-day,
and the forest-plains themselves, alone are
able to confine the fiery sea, and the burnt
forest stands charred, with black trunks and
black stumps of trees, as we saw them here in
the forest by the broad high-road. On this
road we continue to travel, but it becomes worse
and worse; it is, properly speaking, no road at
all, but it is about to become one. Large
stones lie half dug up, and we drive past them;
large trees are cast down, and obstruct our way,
and therefore we must descend from the
carriage. The horses are taken out, and the
peasants help to lift and push the carriage
forward over ditches and opened paths.
The sun now ceases to shine; some few
rain-drops fall, and now it is a steady rain.
But how it causes the birch to shed its
fragrance! At a distance there are huts
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