A FEEN PARADISE AT HOME. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTION, 



E have designated beautiful Devonshire 

 the ' Fern Paradise/ a designation 

 which it well deserves. Who, that has 

 experienced the pleasure, can deny that to wander 

 after Ferns through its beautiful woods to search 

 the rocks, the ravines, and the streamlets which 

 abound in its magnificent moorlands to cross, 

 minute]y searching from moss-covered boulder 

 to moss-covered boulder, the beds of its brawling 

 rivers, listening to the soft thunder of their nume- 

 rous waterfalls, or to the loud roar of rushing 

 torrents where the mountain stream sweeps down 

 into the valley who can deny, we repeat, that 



