A FEEN PARADISE AT HOME. 
CHAPTER I. 
INTRODUCTION* 
E have designated beautiful Devonshire 
the 4 Fern Paradise,’ — a designation 
which it well deserves. Who, that has 
experienced the pleasure, can deny that to wander 
after Perns through its beautiful woods — to search 
the rocks, the ravines, and the streamlets which 
abound in its magnificent moorlands — to cross, 
minutely searching from moss-covered boulder 
to moss-covered boulder, the beds of its brawling 
rivers, listening to the soft thunder of their nume- 
rous waterfalls, or to the loud roar of rushing 
torrents where the mountain stream sweeps down 
into the valley — who can deny, we repeat, that 
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