OUR MOUNTAIN GARDEN 



horizon line at once so graceful and so 

 majestic as this, and when one adds to the 

 wonderful beauty of the form and propor- 

 tion of the mountains, the marvellous and 

 ever changing colour effects produced upon 

 them by the vegetation, the atmosphere, 

 and the sun shining on or through float- 

 ing clouds, one has a picture so wonder- 

 fully reposeful in its quiet dignity, and 

 so uplifting in its strange celestial trans- 

 parency, that it is not to be adequately 

 described in words, and only a Beethoven 

 could express it in music. To look at 

 these mountains when they are illumi- 

 nated by the sunset glow, is to behold 

 heaven itself shining against the horizon. 

 In this magnificent prospect there is 

 little to be found of the work of man. 

 A meadow or two, an occasional field 

 of grain, or farm building, are the only 

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