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NATURE FOR ITS OWN SAKE 
to its splendid sea-flooring, and all the crumb- 
ling glory that sags above it and is reflected 
in it, but as an example of nature’s beauties 
it is hardly admissible. The mountain-lake is 
nature—pure, simple, and undefiled. No one 
can fail to admire it and love it. It is one of 
nature’s brightest jewels set in her green 
girdle of hills. 
