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as were found only at a lower level, in Horse 

 Cove and elsewhere ; omitting, too, all birds 

 of prey, few, and for the most part but 

 imperfectly identified ; restricting myself to 

 birds fully made out and believed to be sum- 

 mering in the immediate neighborhood of 

 Highlands ; omitting the raven, of course, 

 I counted but fifty-nine species. 



All things considered, I was not incon- 

 solable at finding my ornithological activi- 

 ties in some measure abridged. I had the 

 more time, though still much too little, for 

 other pursuits. It would have been good to 

 spend the whole of it upon the plants, or in 

 admiring the beauties of the country itself. 

 As it was, I plucked a blossom here and 

 there, stored up a few of the more striking 

 of them in the memory, and enjoyed many 

 an hour in gazing upon the new wild world, 

 where, no matter how far I climbed, there 

 was nothing to be seen on all sides but a 

 sea of hills, wave rising beyond wave to the 

 horizon's rim. 



The horizon was never far off. I was 

 twice on Satulah and twice on Whiteside, 

 from which latter point, by all accounts, I 

 should have had one of the most extensive 



