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costume, both child-like in their inquisitiveness and in their 

 good-nature; excellent, serviceable, untiring horses, and powerful, 

 shapely oxen lying at ease in large herds; an endless succession of 

 caravans bearing ore and coal along well-made roads, marmots on 



Big. 59. Imperial Eagle, Marmot, and Souslik. 



the slopes of the mountains, souslik on the plains, imperial eagles 

 on the guide-posts by the highway, charming little gulls on the 

 water -basins and about the townships such cheerful pictures 

 enlivened our route. We hastened through the country as if in 

 flight, paying a passing visit to the mining town appropriately 



