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_A little of the History of Chitor, and the Malpractices of a / She-elephant._
There is a certain want of taste, an almost actual indecency, in seeing the sun rise on the earth. Until the heat-haze begins and the distances thicken, Nature is so very naked that the Acteon who has surprised her dressing, blushes. Sunrise on the plains of Mewar is an especially brutal affair.