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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: enjoy a Niagara Fall of thirty inches. Let us approve the singer of
'Shallow rivers, by whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.'
If the sea is to be our ornamental water, choose an open seaboard
with a heavy beat of surf; one much broken in outline, with small
havens and dwarf headlands; if possible a few islets; and as a first
necessity, rocks reaching out into deep water. Such a rock on a calm
day is a better station than the top of Teneriffe or Chimborazo. In
short, both for the desert and the water, the conjunction of many
near and bold details is bold scenery for the imagination and keeps
the mind alive.
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