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rock face or maintain a foothold in crevices, but higher up the 

 sides are usually forested. 



There are, of course, all sorts and sizes of ravines. In the 

 remarks on the nature of ravine vegetation which follow, the 



Fig. 2. Precipitous rocky slopes along stream in Sage's Ravine, Salisbury. 

 The cliffs in the foreground are covered with mosses and liverworts. 



writer has in mind a number of unusually good examples, such as 

 Sage's Ravine and the Wolf Den in Salisbury, the Glen along 

 Spruce Brook at Beacon Falls, Wintergreen Falls ravine in 



