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ENTERING BEAR VALLEY.

than making the ground wet with the blood of fawns and quail.
But "civilization has ever developed the physical and the intellectual at the expense of the psychic, the humane, and the spiritual."
Notwithstanding its small area, innumerable excursions

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offer themselves to the ambitious tourist in Marin, while the diversity of its surface and climate, and the ease with which one can explore its remaining primeval stretches, make this tiny northern peninsula a necessary adjunct to San Francisco, which, with its ever-increasing population, needs an outlet for recreation, relaxation, and repose.

AMONG THE FERNS.

Moreover, as the other Bay counties are less rugged in formation, more inhabited, and consequently more conventional in appearance, true nature-lovers find an outing in Marin a solace and an inspiration.
A short distance from Bear Valley the road, after passing a stretch of low marsh-land covered with tules, reeds, and

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AT THE TROUGH.