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Show IN THE HILf.a OF JAPAN. Panorama One of the Most Beautiful In the World. On every side of us, from our feet to tlio golden distance far nwny, the world-stretched mountains, penk upon peak, as thick as Junks In a Chinese harbor, and raiiRe beyond range Inexhaustible; In-exhaustible; nu sounds of mortal life came up Insldo tho rock, while the river, gentian blue, wound silent In transparent pools below. Tho panorama pano-rama In Japan on a splendid mimmer day Is Imposslbio to describe to an Kngllth reader who hns not been In tin East, for such n ono will rend between be-tween the lines the local color In which he wnR bred, Instead of the wholly different atmosphere that heightens tho charm of tho picture th'-rc the brilliant, luminous air wllch lux-si our oyo with telescopic power nnil brings the wbnlo landscape to our feet; while a soft Hiisplclon of slh v hrso seems to float a halo round onrh rolingp-hldilcn hill. Switzerland, ten Is a mountain world, but small compared with this; the entire content con-tent from Innsbruck to Geneva only ouc-iouith the length of this single Islnnil of Japan a thousand miles of continuous romance. And the quality rf tliu Htinshlno Is what boparntos, hy it vcr wide gull n summer's day In these latitudes irom ono In nioro northerly Kuiupe. Cornhlll Magazine. |