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After some five years at Caterham, he began his academical studies at University College, London; but, on the strength of a scholarship, soon removed to University College, Aberystwyth , where the scenery sea, heron-haunted estuaries, wooded down to the very shore, and hills here and there rising almost into mountains offered surroundings far more congenial to him than the streets and squares of Bloomsbury.
Here, in these lonely solitudes, heron-haunted, snake-infested, the hanging moss and orchids search out every dead limb and cover it with an unnatural greenness. Here, great lichens grow and a myriad tropical insects bore and tunnel their way from bark to heart of tree and back again.
Integral portions of the ambient desolation are they rude toys that infant humanity has left in Mother Nature's lap; and the spectacle of them twines a golden thread of human interest into the fabric of each lonely heath, each storm-scarred mountain-top and heron-haunted stream.
Well, let that decide it.... An hour later, as the camel topped a rise in the river-bank, a considerable pool came into view, tree-shaded, heron-haunted, too incredibly beautiful and alluring for belief. Was it a mirage?...
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