ur right.

The crooked high-street practically constituted the entire hamlet of
Saul, and the inn, "The Wagoners," was the last house in the street.
Now, as we followed the ribbon of moor-path to the top of the rise, we
could stand and look back upon the way we had come; and although we had
covered fully a mile of ground, it was possible to detect the sunlight
gleaming now and then upon the gilt lettering of the inn sign as it
swayed in the breeze. The day had been unpleasantly warm, but was
relieved by this same sea breeze, which, although but slight, had in it
the tang of the broad Atlantic. Behind us, then, the foot-path sloped
down to Saul, unpeopled by any living thing; east and northeast swelled
the monotony of the moor right out to the hazy distance where the sky
began and the sea remotely lay hidden; west fell the gentle gradient
from the top of the slope which we had mounted, and here, as far as the
eye could reach, the country had an appearance suggestive of a huge
and dried-up lake. This idea was borne out by an odd blotchiness, for
sometimes there would be half a mile or more of seeming moorland, then
a sharply defined change (or it seemed sharply defined from that
bird's-eye point of view). A vivid greenness marked these changes, which
merged into a dun-colored smudge and again into the brilliant green;
then the moor would begin once more.

"That will be the Tor of Glastonbury, I suppose," said Smith, suddenly
peering through his field-glasses in an easterly direction; "and yonder,
unless I am greatly mistaken, is Cragmire Tower."

Shading my eyes with my hand, I also looked ahead, and saw the place for
which we were bound; one of those round towers, more common in Ireland,
which some authorities have declared to be of Phoenician origin.
Ramshackle buildings clustered untidily about its base, and to it a sort
of tongue of that oddly venomous green which patched the lowlands, shot
out and seemed almost to reach the towerbase. The land for miles around
was as flat as the palm of my hand, saving certain hummocks, lesser
tors, and irregular piles of boulders which dotted its expanse. Hills
and uplands there were in the hazy distance, forming a sort of mighty
inland bay which I doubted not in some past age had been covered by
the sea. Even in the brilliant sunlight the place had something of
a mournful aspect, looking like a great dried-up pool into which the
children of giants had carelessly cast stones.

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