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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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the: UTTLK OI.D CARMKUTE MONASTe:ry AND THE: BEAUTIE'UI. NE:W UNFINISHED 



PAIvACE: BUSACO, PORTUGAL 



new sense to endow mankind in a fuller 

 life to come. 



Straight before me, as I stood upon 

 the battlements looking toward the 

 south, there rose, as it seemed, quite 

 close a steep mountain slope clothed with 

 a mass of verdure so thick as to look 



like a solid billowy surface of every tint 

 of green, from tender primrose to deep- 

 est bronze. Here and there a straight 

 pine or cedar, more lofty than its fellows^ 

 caught with its feathery top a glinting 

 sun-ray and held it, whilst high up, al- 

 most overhead, upon a rocky spur emerg- 



