THE LAUEENTIDES PAEK 



winter the snow smooths out your way 

 through the woods, for all the fallen 

 timber, stones, and underbrush are 

 deeply buried. Should you follow in 

 summer such a winter trail, you must 

 look for the blazes eight or ten feet 

 above the ground. Even in the summer- 

 time the extremes of temperature are 

 very great. Snow falls occasionally in 

 July and August, and almost any clear 

 still night there may be frost. It is 

 astonishing to observe a thermometric 

 range of sixty or seventy degrees on a 

 perfectly fine day, but at this height 

 above sea-level, and with no blanket of 

 humidity to shield from the sun by day 

 or keep in the warmth by night, you may 

 pass from ten or twelve below freezing 

 at five in the morning to ninety in the 

 shade at eleven. More marvellous still 

 is it that the human frame adapts itself 

 quickly and easily to such variations, 

 and that in so pure and fine an air, with 

 plenty of hard work and a spare wood- 



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