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The Italians say—
“Sera rosa e nigro mattino
Allegra il Pelegrino.”
There is doubtless much truth and reliability
in these prognostics. According to them it is
only when the weather is generally fair that the
evening tints are warm and those of morning
cool. If so, then fine weather is a necessary
condition for the existence of the change which
I observed at the midnights of my previous
journey. As the amount of difference just before
and just after midnight is very slight, demanding
all the conditions to be favourable in order that so
delicate a change shall be visible, it is not
surprising that I failed to recognize it this year.
In 1856 the weather was glorious, as favourable
for this as for my sea serpent.
My sufferings were rendered the more poignant,
inasmuch as at the early part of the voyage I
crowed very loudly in proclaiming my own
infallibility. I had sketched and had the temerity
to publish my sketches of Torghatten, the
Hestmand, and the Seven Sisters (I will now
relieve my conscience by confessing that they
were my first attempts at sketching from nature).
I returned to the originals with some little fear
and trembling, all artfully concealed, but
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