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As Taee and myself, on quitting the town, and leaving to the left the / main road which led to it, struck into the fields, the strange and / solemn beauty of the landscape, lighted up, by numberless lamps, to the / verge of the horizon, fascinated my eyes, and rendered me for some time / an inattentive listener to the talk of my companion.
Along our way various operations of agriculture were being carried on by / machinery, the forms of which were new to me, and for the most part very / graceful; for among these people art being so cultivated for the sake / of mere utility, exhibits itself in adorning or refining the shapes of / useful objects. Precious metals and gems are so profuse among them, that / they are lavished on things devoted to purposes the most commonplace; / and their love of utility leads them to beautify its tools, and quickens / their imagination in a way unknown to themselves.