O'Reilly, John Boyle, 1844-1890 · Boston, Pilot publishing company · leaf 389
e - Inferno. Matted, twisted, andbroken, the roots, like living things in danger,arch themselves out of the dark flood, pitifullystriving to hold aloft their noble stems andbranches. The water of the lake, dark almost asblood, from the surface flow of juniper sap andother vegetable matter, is… … CANOEING IN THE DISMAL SWAMP. 355 life-givers, till its whole circumference is a wofulnet-work of gnarled trunks and intertwined fibres,bleached and dry as the bones of a skeleton, andsheltering no life, but that of the blue lizard andred-throated moccasin. These bare roots and blasted stumps…
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