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He had grown familiar with every cadence of that mysterious voice now a whispering and laughing as the water chased over the sunny shallows then a harsher note where the current, fretting and chafing, as it were, was broken by multitudes of stones again a low murmur as the black river swept, dark and sullen, through a contracted channel finally a fiercer tumult as this once-placid Aivron, increasing in pace and volume every moment, flung itself, lion-like, over the masses of rocks its tawny mane upheaved to the daylight and then fell, crashing and plunging, into a mighty chasm, the birchwoods around reverberating with its angry roar.
And even as they stood and looked, a faint gray veil gradually interposed between them and the distant landscape; a rainbow slowly formed, spanning the broad valley; and then behind the fairy curtain of the shower they could see the yellow river-banks, and the birchwoods, and the farther-stretching hills all vaguely and spectrally shining in the sun. "But this is a very peculiar glen," said she.
Birchwoods, small lakes, brushwood and verdant fields alternate and make the whole country look like a large park, framed by the silver ribbon of the Lena. The surrounding gloom of the taiga emphasizes the natural beauty of the valley. This smiling plain in the midst of the wide expanse reminds one of an oasis in the desert.
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