Thus I traveled all the sixteenth and on the seventeenth I reached the Appalachi. You stand on a very high point of land. Westward, a sea of turquoise granite waves is seen, dotted with lakes and meadows, between the degrees of 36 and 38, in the zone temperate. Below this region lie the dark forests, broken here and there by upswelling ridges and domes. The land is one organism. Its parts, like our own parts, compete with each other and cooperate with each other.
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