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The bonfire was by this time beginning to sink low, for the fuel had not been of that substantial sort which can support a blaze long.

Most of the other fires within the wide horizon were also dwindling weak.

Attentive observation of their brightness, colour, and length of existence would have revealed the quality of the material burnt.

And through that, to some extent the natural produce of the district in which each bonfire was situate.

The clear, kingly effulgence that had characterized the majority expressed a heath and furze country like their own, which in one direction extended an unlimited number of miles.

The rapid flares and extinctions at other points of the compass showed the lightest of fuelstraw, beanstalks, and the usual waste from arable land.

The most enduring of allsteady unaltering eyes like Planetssignified wood, such as hazel-branches, thorn-faggots, and stout billets.

Fires of the last-mentioned materials were rare, and though comparatively small in magnitude beside the transient blazes, now began to get the best of them by mere long continuance.

The great ones had perished, but these remained.

They occupied the remotest visible positionssky-backed summits rising out of rich coppice and plantation districts to the north, where the soil was different, and heath foreign and strange.

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