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they offer for studying the features of an extensive 

 tract of country without actually having to traverse 

 it are most remarkable. And to all this is added 

 a diversity of lovely, landscape that cannot but be 

 admired, especially by those who can look intelli- 

 gently upon the scene, deciphering in the gentle 

 undulations and verdant vales, the crumbling sand 

 and overhanging rocks, the fascinating story of 

 Nature's long and unwearied operations, by which 

 she has built up the great hills with the remains 

 of innumerable generations of her offspring, and 

 then has carved and chiselled the material into cliff 

 and valley by the potent agencies at her command, 

 producing by much change and toil the beauty and 

 order that now delight the thoughtful, reverent 

 beholder. 



