The Piazza Tales Chapter 5 - The Encantadas - Sketch First. The Isles at Large.

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In which the narrator leads us through the desolate and timeless wonders of the Encantadas—an archipelago of scorched, lifeless isles whose unchanging barrenness and eerie reptilian inhabitants bestow upon them a sombre enchantment both dreadful and sublime. Here, amid volcanic ruins and shifting currents, nature reveals a harsh and silent majesty that both repels and fascinates the solitary observer.

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