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CHAPTER XI. 



THE NORTHERN MYSTERY. 



' For self-poised they live, nor pine with noting 

 All the fever of some differing soul. 

 Unaffrighted by the silence round them, 

 Undistracted by the sights they see, 

 These demand not that the things about them 

 Yield them love, amusement, sympathy.' 



M. ARNOLD. 



* THE romance of a prehistoric age broods 

 over this wonderful country.'^ 



A ' wonderful country ' indeed to him who 

 has eyes to see, and a mind with which to 

 dream backward. To him who has neither, 

 a poor place, perhaps of interest only to 

 health-seekers and fruit-growers. 



No need here to go to prehistoric times 

 for the finding of romance. The mountains 



* ' The Story of New Mexico,' H. O. Ladd. 



