pause, to the very summit. Dense foliage 

 overshadows it, a little thinner now that 

 the hand of autumn has begun to dis- 

 robe the trees. Great rocks often lie in 

 the course of the path and send it in a 

 narrow curve around them. Sometimes 

 one comes upon a bold ascent up the face 

 of a projecting cliff ; sometimes one plunges 

 into the very heart of the shadows as they 

 gather over the rocky channel of the brook 

 that later will run foaming down to the 

 valley. Step by step one widens his hori- 

 zon, although it is only at intervals that 

 he is able to note his progress upward. At 

 the base of the mountain one saw only a 

 circle of hills, and the long sweep of wooded 

 slopes which converge in the valley ; grad- 

 ually the horizon widens as one climbs 

 beyond the summit lines of the lower hills ; 

 at turns in the path, where it crosses some 

 rocky declivity, one looks out upon a land- 

 scape into which some new feature enters 

 with every new outlook ; one range of hills 

 after another sinks below the level of vision, 

 and discloses another strip of undiscovered 

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