| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: then--I might at a pinch describe the infernal regions, but not
the other place. The Yellowstone River has occasion to run
through a gorge about eight miles long. To get to the bottom of
the gorge it makes two leaps, one of about one hundred and twenty
and the other of three hundred feet. I investigated the upper or
lesser fall, which is close to the hotel.
Up to that time nothing particular happens to the
Yellowstone--its banks being only rocky, rather steep, and
plentifully adorned with pines.
At the falls it comes round a corner, green, solid, ribbed with a
little foam, and not more than thirty yards wide. Then it goes
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: shouldn't have met."
"It's not really so odd as it strikes you. I've been out of
England so much - made repeated absences all these last years."
She took this in with interest. "And yet you write of it as well
as if you were always here."
"It's just the being away perhaps. At any rate the best bits, I
suspect, are those that were done in dreary places abroad."
"And why were they dreary?"
"Because they were health-resorts - where my poor mother was
dying."
"Your poor mother?" - she was all sweet wonder.
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