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that Nature was independent of them, not merely 

 they of her ; that ti-ees were not merely made to 

 build their houses, or herbs to feed their cattle; as 

 they looked on those wild gardens amid the wreaths 

 of the untrodden snow, which had lifted their gay 

 flowers to the sun year after year since the foun- 

 dation of the world, taking no heed of man, and 

 all the coil which he keeps in the valleys far below. 

 And even, to take a simpler instance, there are 

 those who will excuse, or even approve of a 

 writer for saying that, among the memories of a 

 month's eventful tour, those which stand out 

 as beacon-points, those round which all the 

 others group themselves, are the first wolf-track 

 by the road-side in the Kyllwald ; the first sight 

 of the blue and green Roller-birds, walking 

 behind the plough like rooks in the tobacco- 

 fields of Wittlich ; the first ball of Olivine 

 scraped out of the volcanic slag-heaps of the 

 Dreisser-Weiher ; the first pair of the Lesser 

 Bustard which we flushed upon the downs of 

 the Mosel-kopf ; the first sight of the cloud of 

 white Ephemerae, fluttering in the dusk like a 

 summer snowstorm between us and the black 

 cliffs of the Rheinstein, while the broad Rhine 

 beneath flashed blood-red in the blaze of the 



