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was gratified to note that the long-sought-for cliff was obviously 
well suited as a nesting station for Vultures. and was further not of 
[A VULTURE’S CLIFF. 
so forbidding a nature as to render escalade or descent a matter of 
impossibility for me, in my crippled condition of that time. 
In cliff climbing, as in very many other occupations, nothing 
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