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adopted our synonyme Slough, a derivative of [Sloc] . A word is said to be Anglicized when, after repeated attempts to [master] we parley with its unmanageable syllables, until it [harmonises with] our ideas of pronunciation. When this can be done without [--] adding or transferring the letters of the word it is the purest [--] to mutilate it.

"The Sloc" is a precipice on the N. W. [North West] side of [--] most northern elevation of the Starr range. It is composed of a hard [--] and rises to a perpendicular height of nearly 300 feet. It is [--] ribbed with a series of angular columns piled up in [succession] to the summit, in several places with the regularity and [property] of the baslatic formation. This hill, notwithstanding the [comparatively] [excellence] of its pasture, was sometime ago a negative [possession] causing an actual deduction in the rent of the [farmsteading.] A number of sheep walks has just been completed by [blasting] rock, facilitating their approach to the verdant temptations [which] cap the rude pillars, peep from the intervals of the rocks, and sometimes caverns. Masses of the detached rock lie at its base [and] suggest the ruins of an Egyptian temple. "The Sloc" looks out upon a [--] tract of level moorland, bounded by a chain of green [unbroken] hills, conceals by its semicircular form, a continuity of [precipices] extending southwards from its SE. [South East] extremity, and [--] ocean-like waste of rocks on the W. [West] side this enjoying the [--] of independent position and strong contrast.

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