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A FAVOURED COUNTRY 
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and rocky precipice to the great cold lakes ; along the 
shores of golden reaches to fierce broad rivers, to ideal 
summer haunts where, among wildernesses of ferns and 
mosses, sunshine steals in and goes to sleep ; and in 
the words of the Scripture, A land of brooks of water, 
of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and 
hills, a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig 
trees, and pomegranates, a land of olives and honey. 
