The Gentleman's Magazine

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Excerpt from The Gentleman's Magazine: Volume 269, July to December, 1890From her earliest childhood the girl had been conversant with every portion Of the big mountain. With no mother to restrain her roving propensities within reasonable limits, she had been accustomed to spend whole days alone there, exploring every nook and cranny in its steep sides.She knew the shape of every boulder that stood out fantastic and curious from the craggy summit, knew where the precipices lay, and how to avoid and skirt each bog. Also she knew every particular plant that grew there, and though utterly unversed in their long Latin designa tions, could tell pretty correctly the habits and properties of each.This, naturally, made her society valuable to Mr. Beldon, an ardent botanist and lover of plants, who had come out of the beaten track in pursuit of his favourite hobby and who, in this mountain district, found many rare specimens hitherto unprocurable by him.It was certainly a profitable hunting-ground. Between the stones and in the crannies of the crags nestled many varieties of ferns aspleniums and parsley, the mountain-bladder and the scented ferns. The boggy ground below was studded with choice orchises and sticky sundews while cistuses and yellow poppies grew upon ledges Of the rocks above. But for such treasures it was necessary to know the locality and where to look.No wonder, therefore, that Bronwen was an acceptable companion to the young botanist.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.