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hill, till at the bottom they open upon a 

 wide valley at right angles, in which flows 

 the Badgeworthy Water. Each of these 

 rivulets goes to increase its stream, in 

 which full many a noble stag has come 

 to bay. 



Over the valley rises a hill of red rock 

 thinly grown with oak Badgeworthy Wood 

 the green foliage of the oaks was faintly 

 yellow (spring yellow), and the red rock 

 showed between them. Dark heather, dark 

 and yet with some under-shade of purple, 

 covered the great slopes to the left of the 

 Wood. None of these colours, the yellow- 

 green of the oaks, the redness of the rocks, 

 the dark purple of the heather, were bright ; 

 they were toned and quiet, yet perfectly dis- 

 tinct in the brilliant sunshine. At the first 

 glance the colour was scarcely noticed ; in 

 a moment the eye became conscious of it, 

 and soon learned that to describe the scene 



