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Under the Surface |
 | | Lilla Edet was so quiet a town that the first summer I lived there I learnt to distinguish the smells of different trees. |
 | | Parallel valleys ran through the granite; in the deepest and broadest of these, by the side of Lilla Edet, ran the huge Göta river which drains Lake Vänern, one of the largest in Europe; in the hills to the East, lay a chain of deep, clear lakes. |
 | | But two lakes down the chain, by the bathing place for Lilla Edet, was a lake whose depths were still a deep humus colour, whose margins were full of water lilies and whose weedbeds were full of pike. |
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