PREFACE 



of the close-locked pines it nourishes about 

 its borders, you may look in my account to 

 find it so described. But if the Indians 

 have been there before me, you shall have 

 their name, which is always beautifully fit 

 and does not originate in the poor human 

 desire for perpetuity. 



Nevertheless there are certain peaks, ca- 

 nons, and clear meadow spaces which are 

 above all compassing of words, and have a 

 certain fame as of the nobly great to whom 

 we give no familiar names. Guided by 

 these you may reach my country and find 

 or not find, according as it lieth in you, 

 much that is set down here. And more. 

 The earth is no wanton to give up all her 

 best to every comer, but keeps a sweet, 

 separate intimacy for each. But if you do 

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