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STUDIES OF NATURE 



North Burn, and trusted that we should be able 

 to ford it, as we had done last night. We found 

 it, however, quite impassable swollen by the 

 storm to a great flood, black in the depths, brown 

 in the shallows. Our progress along the shore 



being stopped, we determined to return by the 

 near bank of the stream. On that side there is 

 no path, and we had to force our way through 

 a thick tangle of birch and hazel, whose grey 

 stems were all moss-grown. All the way up to 

 the bridge the river was a fine sight ; sometimes 



