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Updated: May 26, 2025
'One thinks of her as a snow-mountain you've been admiring. 'Very well; so let her be. 'Is she kind and good? 'Yes. 'Does she ride well? 'She rides remarkably well. 'She 's fair, I suppose? 'Janet, if I saw you married to Temple, it would be the second great wish of my heart. 'Harry, you're a bit too cruel, as Julia would say. 'Have you noticed she gets more and more Irish?
The climate and the soil there is such, that two crops can often be grown in the year, of almost any kind which man may need; there are rich valleys well watered, where not only wheat and every grain-crop, but the olive, and the fig, and the vine, flourish in perfection; rich park-like uplands, where sheep and cattle without number may find pasture; great forests of timber, fit for every use; and all kept cool and fruitful, even beneath that burning eastern sun, by the clear streams which flow for ever down from Hermon. the great snow-mountain ten thousand feet high, which overlooks that pleasant land.
To the south of the village one sees a snow-mountain which seems to lift up its shining peaks right above the roofs of the houses. Yet it is not quite so near. Summer and winter it dominates the valley with its beetling crags and snowy sides. Being the most remarkable object in the landscape, this mountain is of main interest to the inhabitants and has become the central feature of many a story.
The village is called Gschaid and the snow-mountain looking down upon it, Gars. On the other side of the "neck" there lies a valley by far more beautiful and fertile than that of Gschaid. At its entrance there lies a country-town of considerable size named Millsdorf which has several industrial enterprizes and carries on almost urban trade and business.
"What do you see?" "I, carino? I see a blue sky and a snow-mountain that is all when I look up into the heights. But down there it is different." He pointed to the valley below them. Arthur knelt down and bent over the sheer edge of the precipice. The great pine trees, dusky in the gathering shades of evening, stood like sentinels along the narrow banks confining the river.
The lichens range in colour from white to yellow, red, green, brown and some are as black as that rare black pansy of which I told you. Each kind has its own peculiar way of growing, and these hardy little plants can live where no other plant can on the hard black lava, on naked rocks, and even upon the highest snow-mountain.
One follows a fine road which leads south to another valley over a so-called "neck." Neck they call a moderately high mountain-ridge which connects two mountain-ranges of considerable magnitude and over which one can pass from one valley to another between the mountains. The neck which connects our snow-mountain with another great mountain-mass is altogether covered with pine-forests.
While he was speaking he thrust his hand into the inmost fold of his, girdle and drew out three great gems one blue as a fragment of the night sky, one redder than a ray of sunrise, and one as pure as the peak of a snow-mountain at twilight and laid them on the outspread scrolls before him. But his friends looked on with strange and alien eyes.
From my finding this pumice-stone, I concluded that our snow-mountain had once been a volcano perhaps like the peak of Teneriffe, standing alone in the water, when the great plain around us had been covered with a sea. "Cudjo and I did not forget the promise we had made to the beavers.
The Spaniards left the Scottish coast and sailed away for Norway; and the game was played out, and the end was come, as the end of such matters generally comes, by gradual decay, petty disaster, and mistake; till the snow-mountain, instead of being blown tragically and heroically to atoms, melts helplessly and pitiably away.
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