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...delineated by Mr. Grant Allen: " While man has only tilled a few level plains, a few great river valleys, a few peninsular mountain slopes, leaving the vast...clothes the hillside; his heather purples the bleak gray moorland. High up among the alpine heights his gentian spreads its lakes of blue; amid the snows...

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