To my great gratification it was instantly recognized as mine.

All the town flocked to see it, and people even came from neighboring localities to visit it.

It made more stir than any other work in the Exhibition.

But the most gratifying thing of all was, that chance strangers, passing through, who had not heard of my picture, were not only drawn to it, as by a lodestone, the moment they entered the gallery, but always took it for a "Turner." Apparently nobody had ever done that.

There were ruined castles on the overhanging cliffs and crags all the way; these were said to have their legends, like those on the Rhine, and what was better still, they had never been in print.