That served my Fellow-traveller to beguile[142]
The way, while we advanced up that wide vale.[BQ]
Diverging now (as if his quest had been[143]
Some secret of the mountains, cavern, fall
Of water, or some lofty eminence,[144]
Renowned for splendid prospect far and wide)
We scaled, without a track to ease our steps,
A steep ascent;[BR] and reached a dreary plain,[145][BS]
With a tumultuous waste of huge hill tops
Before us;[BT] savage region! which I paced