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side of the mountains. The snow grew less, the 

 sombre pines became scattered and intermixed with 

 trees of a pleasanter, brighter green. Cape Horn, 



CAPE HORN. 



a precipitous mountain-side, around which the train 

 passed, and from which we could see the green valley, 

 hundreds of feet beneath us, was an exceedingly in- 



