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for Nature, pure and undefiled, came from Highland fore- 

 bears. A roamer in many lands, his wistful eyes have 

 searched the hidden places of glade and crevasse in 

 regions unexplored. He has wandered farther and seen 

 more than the men of his generation ; but his heart turns 

 ever homeward to the "Mountains of the Light." There 

 fittingly the picture leaves him. In the sombre gloom of 

 the depths around him (for Whitney's sides are steep and 

 sheer), in the deepening shadows, in the sweep of the 

 wind, he finds friendship; communing with old friends, 

 while night with a thousand eyes of splendor watches 

 over all. 



