A FERN PARADISE AT HOME. 
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CHAPTER I. 
INTRODUCTION. 
E have designated beautiful Devonshire 
the ‘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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