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authorpgww <pgww@lists.pglaf.org>2025-08-05 05:30:36 -0700
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ OVER THE RANGE
by Samuel Butler
-“Τοῦ γὰρ εἰναι δοκοῦντος ἀγαθοῦ χάριν πάντα πράττουσι πάντες.”—ARIST.
+“Τοῦ γὰρ εἰναι δοκοῦντος ἀγαθοῦ χάριν πάντα πράττουσι πάντες.”—ARIST.
_Pol_.
“There is no action save upon a balance of
@@ -327,22 +327,22 @@ and that my story will carry conviction by reason of the internal
evidences for its accuracy. No one who is himself honest will doubt my
being so.
-I reached my destination in one of the last months of 1868, but I dare
-not mention the season, lest the reader should gather in which
+I reached my destination in one of the last months of 1868, but I
+dare not mention the season, lest the reader should gather in which
hemisphere I was. The colony was one which had not been opened up even
to the most adventurous settlers for more than eight or nine years,
having been previously uninhabited, save by a few tribes of savages who
frequented the seaboard. The part known to Europeans consisted of a
coast-line about eight hundred miles in length (affording three or four
good harbours), and a tract of country extending inland for a space
-varying from two to three hundred miles, until it a reached the
-offshoots of an exceedingly lofty range of mountains, which could be
-seen from far out upon the plains, and were covered with perpetual
-snow. The coast was perfectly well known both north and south of the
-tract to which I have alluded, but in neither direction was there a
-single harbour for five hundred miles, and the mountains, which
-descended almost into the sea, were covered with thick timber, so that
-none would think of settling.
+varying from two to three hundred miles, until it reached the offshoots
+of an exceedingly lofty range of mountains, which could be seen from
+far out upon the plains, and were covered with perpetual snow. The
+coast was perfectly well known both north and south of the tract to
+which I have alluded, but in neither direction was there a single
+harbour for five hundred miles, and the mountains, which descended
+almost into the sea, were covered with thick timber, so that none would
+think of settling.
With this bay of land, however, the case was different. The harbours
were sufficient; the country was timbered, but not too heavily; it was