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that lie close to the water's edge. Back of this the slopes rise to the tops of round-topped hills & long ridges from a few hundred up to 1500 ft. above the water. The higher slopes are dark green from the growth of pines & oaks of several species which begin some [[strikethrough]] dist [[/strikethrough]] 700 ft above the water and cover all the hill tops with few exceptions.

Over these hills sweep a wonderful variety of cloud formations - now that the rainy season is in progress these vapor masses afford a source of great interest. Now sweeping in voluminous masses, one piling on the other blotting out all the landscape and dashing down torrents of water into the ruffled bosom of the lake while a forbidding gloom as of approaching night shuts us in. Then again a cloud comes silently over the hill-crests and marches across the horizon with a trailing gray veil of falling water reaching down