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the snows are melting, a much greater portion of the water of 

 Atlantic Creek finds its way across the meadow to the other. 



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already stated, the pass is a nearly level meadow, covered with a 

 heavy growth of grass and many small willows one to three feet 

 high. While it is somewhat marshy in places, it has nothing of 

 the nature of a lake about it. Of course, during wet weather the 



