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- # And this recalls my inland voyage to fairy-land.
## Overview
This section, titled "And this recalls my inland voyage to fairy-land," is a textual component extracted from the larger work [THE PIAZZA.](arke:01KG8AJK1P91S74E5PM1TE53E5). It spans lines 160 to 248 of its source file.
## Context
This section is part of the chapter [THE PIAZZA.](arke:01KG8AJK1P91S74E5PM1TE53E5), which in turn is contained within the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. The text was extracted from the file [the_piazza_tales.txt](arke:01KG89J1F4D8P9BBX9AMGZ7TX7). It follows the section beginning "my northern bower, I, Lazarus in Abraham’s bosom, cast down the hill a pitying glance on poor old Dives, tormented in the purgatory of his piazza to the south."(arke:01KG8AK2X965ZFKTCNH10WCGCX) and precedes the section titled [The Piazza](arke:01KG8AK3EJC3BQZQN8715ZN3MX).
## Contents
The section describes the narrator's observations from their piazza, focusing on a mysterious object in the northwestern mountains that appears only under specific lighting conditions. The narrator initially perceives this spot as a "haunted ring where fairies dance" or a "glen, or grotto," glowing like the Potosi mine when viewed through a rainbow. Despite a neighbor's suggestion that it is merely an old barn, the narrator maintains a belief in its magical nature, reinforced by subsequent observations of a "golden sparkle" and a "silver buckler" gleam, suggesting a newly fitted cottage. The narrative details the narrator's persistent, though often frustrated, attempts to view this "far cot in fairy land" amidst changing atmospheric conditions.
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