"An exile—— Who has the whole world for a dungeon strong." Prophecy of Dante, iv. 131, 132.] [28] [Compare— [28] "The harvest of a quiet eye." A Poet's Epitaph, line 51, Works of W. Wordsworth, 1889, p. 116.] [g] [g] I saw them with their lake below, And their three thousand years of snow.—[MS.] [29] [This, according to Ruskin's canon, may be a poetical inaccuracy. The Rhone is blue below the lake at Geneva, but "les embouchures" at Villeneuve are muddy and discoloured.] [29] [30] [Villeneuve.] [30] [31] Between the entrances of the Rhone and Villeneuve, not far from Chillon, is a very small island [Ile de Paix]; the only one I could perceive in my voyage round and over the lake, within its circumference. It contains a few trees (I think not above three), and from its singleness and diminutive size has a peculiar effect upon the view. [31] [32] {27}[Compare— [32] "Of Silver How, and Grasmere's peaceful lake,