We, too, feel and appreciate the beauty of these lakes and mountains The hill-sides and placid waters, the forest songs, and wild scenery are pleasant to us; but we enjoy them the more from the intellectual relaxation, the mental quiet and repose, which we find among them.

The breeze had entirely ceased, and the lake lay still and smooth; not a wave agitated its surface, not a ripple passed across its stirless bosom; the woods along the shore, and the mountains in the back ground, the glowing sunlight upon the hill-tops were mirrored back from its quiet depths as if there were other forests, and other mountains and hills glowing in the evening sunshine away down below, twins to those above and around us.

The weather cleared in the evening, as it often does in a hill country.

But all along the redwood belt there are sunny openings on hill-slopes looking to the south, where the giant trees stand back, and give the ground to the small sunflowers and the bees.

The Tidewater thinks it has put the fear of God on the hill tribes, and here's a red Cherokee snowking about its back doors.

He did not answer; they crossed the broad field, coming at last to the hill-road.

I was then in the edge of the main forest belt at a small foot-hill town called Knoxville, on the divide between the waters of the Feather and Yuba rivers.

In what summer, he wondered, had she come up to the hill station of Mussoorie.

You'll find axes and tools at the quartermaster's wagon on the hill yonder!"

Another pleasant ride is by way of the coteaux to Gan, and back by the road, or vice versá; but we always preferred the former, as the horses had the hill work while fresh, and then the level home.

They're a hill people, and they know the white man's mettle too well.

He had long been a thorn in the side of the preachers, holding certain strange heresies that discomforted even the wildest of the hill-folk.

" Three years before, Mrs. Gray had come to the Souris Valley, and settled on the hill farm.

The foot-hill pastures, as we have seen, fail about the end of May, those of the chaparral belt and lower forests are in full bloom in June, those of the upper and alpine region in July, August, and September.

When I arose from my knees, I made out an animal on the hill crest looking at me, but before I could distinguish its characteristics it had disappeared.

He drove over with Arthur Weldon, in the buggyfour miles of hill climbing, over rough cobble-stones, into the pine forest.

The village boys, who remembered the search with shuddering horror, avoided the river, and even Hugh found means to persuade Mildred to give up the pleasant road on its bank and take the hill district for their afternoon rides.

Here were the seven of us, pinned in a hill-fort, with no help within fifty miles, and one of the seven was a woman!

They are not hill-men, and fear the high places where the gods smoke.

A noble river, the child of many hill streams, twined through it in shining links.

Agony asked wonderingly as they drew their canoe up on the dock and went up the hill path.

Here and there a white farmstead, surrounded by stunted trees, stood at the hill foot; farther back a waterfall seamed the rocks and yellow grass with threads of foam; and then a lofty moor, red with heather, shut off the view.

Some of the mountains are upward of 4000 feet in height, and small streams, springs, oozy bogs, etc., occur in great abundance and variety in the wooded regions, while open parks, flooded with sunshine, and hill-girt valleys lying at different elevations, each with its own peculiar climate and exposure, possess the required conditions for the development of species and families of plants widely varied.

Along the top, and extending a good way down, you see a pale, pearl-gray belt of snow; and below it a belt of blue and dark purple, marking the extension of the forests; and along the base of the range a broad belt of rose-purple and yellow, where lie the minor's gold-fields and the foot-hill gardens.

The Forest of Austerity (Tapovan), Panchvati and Ramsej or Ram's seat, that strangely-shaped hill fortress to the north of Nasik, are but three of the holy places which appeal so forcibly to the hearts of the people as the visible legacies of divine life on earth.