Part way up the rocky path that leads to the top of Grand- 

 father MoiDitain we turned to face the outlying country^ a nar- 

 row strip of ichich could be seen through the space between a 

 locust and a buckeye tree. The I'altey at our feet 7aas deep and 

 appeared to rise until lost in the opposite mountains^ spread out 

 as though to form the seini-circle of an amphitheatre 77iade for 

 the greater scenes of worlds. An intense sun shone., as ivarm as 

 it had been in 7nid-summer ; slowly the clouds glided along ; the 

 smoke from a saw-mill arose ; while., against each other' s sides, 

 lay dark and grotesque the shadows of neighbouring mountains. 

 Here grew the silver fir and the black spruce, and on the flat 

 rocks the sand myrtle formed green mats more thick tha?i those 

 about the rhododendrons on Roan's summit. 

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