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 | | At the end of the village, seeing a woman standing at the door of one of the ruinous cottages, I asked her the name of the brook, or torrent, which came down the valley. |
 | | The valley was wild and solitary to an extraordinary degree, the brook or torrent running in the middle of it covered with alder trees. |
 | | We proceeded some way farther up the valley, till we came to a place where the ground descended a little. |
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