The Brocken is the highest summit of the Hartz mountains in
Hanover. This summit is at times enveloped in a thick mist, which
reflects in a greatly magnified degree any form opposite at sunset. In
one of De Quincey's opium-dreams there is a powerful description of
the Brocken spectre.
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