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4 countered was the most beautiful deepest longest narrowest illegible rocks? over illegible ing them a perfect selection
of trees which hold themselves towards one another from side to side with inimitable grace forming a flower / flowing? illegible
of indescribable beauty - the light is measured mellowed? for every flower Springs illegible pools are there in their places
to moisten them The walls are fringed painted most divinely with the bright green polypodium As illegible all illegible mosses
liverworts - gray lichens here there a clump of flowers little bushes The illegible was barred banded sheltered by bossy shining
mossclad logs cast in as needed from above over all above all in all the glorious ferns tall perfect gad illegible illegible
illegible amid? their fronds? a long illegible ical spike of the Grand onquil? purple Orchis But who can describe a greenhouse
planned made planted tended by the Great Creator himself Mrs. Davis wished a fernery. Tell her I wish she could see this one
this rock work. We cannot remove such places to our homes but they cut themselves keenly into our mem- ories remain pictured
in us for ever 1 1861-64 Since writing last we have been on many a hill, walked over moors mosses many O but best
of all our rambles was one which was completed last Friday We took the train from here Thursday morning for Kilbourn a small
town on the illegible towards La C illegible rambled all day among the g illegible tangled illegible lofty perpendicular rocks
of the famous dells - stayed over night in Kilbourn voyaged to Portage next day upon? a raft of our own construction The thousand
illegible part of what we enjoyed was pleasure be- yond telling, At the Dells the river illegible. squeezed between lofty
frowning sandstone rocks the invincible Wis? has been fighting for ages for a free passage to the illegible - ippic only this
crooked narrow slit has been granted or gained At present all is peace but the river though calm does not appear con- tented,
only a few foam bells on illegible