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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: we had descended. Before us, thin as smoke in the
magic lucence that flooded the world, rose other
mountains, very great, lofty as the sky. We could
not understand them. The descent we had just
accomplished should have landed us on a level plain
in which lay our town. But here we found ourselves
in a pocket valley entirely surrounded by mountain
ranges through which there seemed to be no pass less
than five or six thousand feet in height.
We reined in the horses to figure it out.
"I don't see how it can be," said I. "We've
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