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the unalloyed excitement the calm, luxurious solitude, 

 which I found among their wastes. What has re- 

 finement to offer me in exchange ? Will the over- 

 stocked preserve replace the moorland chase, with its 

 glorious ridge of purple highlands its silver lake, 

 and sparkling river my wild followers my tried 

 friends and the dear cabin and its snowy tent, peeping 

 from the dark expanse of heather, like a white sea-bird 

 from the lap of ocean ? Alas ! nothing will compensate 

 for these or give me an equivalent for the joyous inter- 

 course with kindred spirits, which I realized and left 

 in the wilds of Bally croy. 



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