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John Muir.

prednisone 10mg buy online Crossing the Cumberlands:

purchase prednisone for dogs Awoke drenched with mountain-mist, which made a grand show, as it moved away before the hot sun.  Passed Montgomery, a shabby village at the head of the east slope of the Cumberland Mountains.  Obtained breakfast in a clean house and began the descent of the mountains.  Obtained fine views of a wide, open country, and distant flanking ridges and spurs.  Crossed a wide cool stream, a branch of the Clinch River.  There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream, and this is the first I ever saw.  Its banks are luxuriantly peopled with rare and lovely flowers and overarching trees, making one of Nature’s coolest and most hospitable places.  Every tree, every flower, every ripple and eddy of this lovely stream seemed solemnly to feel the presence of the great Creator.  Lingered in this sanctuary a long time thanking the Lord with all my heart for his goodness in allowing me to enter and enjoy it.  Discovered two ferns, Dicksonia and a small matted polypod on trees, common farther South [probably Resurrection Fern, Pleopeltis polypodioides].  Also a species of magnolia with very large leaves and scarlet conical fruit [probably Magnolia tripetala].  Near this stream I spent some joyous time in a grand rock-dwelling full of mosses, birds, and flowers.  Most heavenly place I ever entered.  The long narrow valleys of the mountainside, all well watered and nobly adorned with oaks, magnolias, laurels, azaleas, asters, ferns, Hypnum mosses, Madotheca, etc.

From his A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf.

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