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glades divided the land equally between 

 them, interlapping like fiord and head- 

 land. 



After wandering all the forenoon 

 among these fair scenes, shooting a 

 young elk and seeing others at inter- 

 vals, I lunched, and sat down on a 

 hill-side to watch the outskirts of a 

 wood about four hundred yards below 

 me, where elk were known to harbour. 

 At four o'clock, if an elk was in the 

 wood he would be sure to come out to 

 graze. 



The slope of the hill on which I 

 sat did not descend evenly, but ended 

 in three or four .knolls separated by 

 corresponding depressions, thus break- 

 ing the outline of the ground where 

 it skirted the wood; there the grass 



