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ligent seekers, tliey scour all the accessible places, 
leaving very little for timid climbers. In the 
neighbourhood of Castle Rock, Hymenophyllum 
Wilsoni grows in abundance. It may be found 
in long trailing masses hanging to the damp rock. 
If I visit the lakes again I hope to find both 
Asplenium septentrionale and germanicum about 
Honister Crag, where I believe they have several 
times been seen. Who can tell the glories of the 
mountain paths in the district round Honister, where 
waterfall answers waterfall, and bleak dreary moors 
melt into sweet homeland scenes ; where children 
play about the cottage doors, and join their voices 
with waterfall and mountain in one grand Te Deum, 
for ever ascending from a grateful earth to the 
throne of Nature's God in heaven ? I know not 
why it is that mountain districts should have so 
soothing a power upon the mind; but there is 
something in their vastness and their stillness 
that seems to hush all rebel thoughts, and bow 
the heart of the created in simple, unquestioning 
awe at the feet of the Creator. 
