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migrating Swallows as they sweep upwards in 

 hundreds from the plains ; and the dull, fluctuating 

 roar of some racing torrent in a gorge below — 

 when such appropriate cries and sounds as these 

 are added to the already fascinating scene, its 

 eloquent suggestiveness is complete, and we have, 

 indeed, a fitting ' curtain ' to our Alpine year I 



