CHAPTER VI 
MOUNTAINS 
Tue Alps are to many of us an inexhaustible 
source of joy and peace, of health, and even of 
life.. We have gone to them jaded and worn, 
feeling, perhaps without any external cause, 
anxious and out of spirits, and have returned 
full of health, strength, and energy. Among 
the mountains Nature herself seems freer and 
happier, brighter and purer, than elsewhere. 
The rush of the rivers, and the repose of the 
lakes, the pure snowfields and majestic glaciers, 
the fresh air, the mysterious summits of the 
mountains, the blue haze of the distance, the 
morning tints and the evening glow, the beauty 
of the sky and the grandeur of the storm, have 
all refreshed and delighted us time after time, 
and their memories can never fade away. 
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