A BEAUTIFUL CLEARING 



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beautiful flowers, flame-coloured irises and amaryllises, red and 

 yellow everlasting flowers, &c. Then we once more entered the 

 solitudes of the forest, the violets, campanulas, and ranunculi 

 reminding us at every step of our northern flora. It was now 

 almost dark in the wood, a thick fog having come on, but 

 another hour brought us out on to a rather steep grassy slope, 



TREE HEATH. 



and at three o'clock in the afternoon we reached our camp- 

 ing-place, a swampy bit of ground by a spring at the edge of a 

 wood, at a height of some 8,960 feet, The fog and damp cold 

 had greatly discouraged our people, but they soon cheered up as 

 they gathered round the huge fires. The next morning the 



