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I. A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression

           

           Hereatleastwereintelligiblefactsregardinglandscape—far-reachingproofsproductiveofgenuinesatisfaction.Theuntameable,IshmaelitishthingthatEgdonnowwasitalwayshadbeen.Civilizationwasitsenemy;andeversincethebeginningofvegetationitssoilhadwornthesameantiquebrowndress,thenaturalandinvariablegarmentoftheparticularformation.Initsvenerableonecoatlayacertainveinofsatireonhumanvanityinclothes.Apersononaheathinraimentofmoderncutandcolourshasmoreorlessananomalouslook.Weseemtowanttheoldestandsimplesthumanclothingwheretheclothingoftheearthissoprimitive.

           ToreclineonastumpofthorninthecentralvalleyofEgdon,betweenafternoonandnight,asnow,wheretheeyecouldreachnothingoftheworldoutsidethesummitsandshouldersofheathlandwhichfilledthewholecircumferenceofitsglance,andtoknowthateverythingaroundandunderneathhadbeenfromprehistorictimesasunalteredasthestarsoverhead,gaveballasttothemindadriftonchange,andharassedbytheirrepressibleNew.Thegreatinviolateplacehadanancientpermanencewhichtheseacannotclaim.Whocansayofaparticularseathatitisold?Distilledbythesun,kneadedbythemoon,itisrenewedinayear,inaday,orinanhour.Theseachanged,thefieldschanged,therivers,thevillages,andthepeoplechanged,yetEgdonremained.Thosesurfaceswereneithersosteepastobedestructiblebyweather,norsoflatastobethevictimsoffloodsanddeposits

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