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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: all those seven heaths, and other sorts with them, and those which
are rare in England and Ireland are common there. About Biarritz,
on the Spanish frontier, all the moors are covered with Cornish
heath, and the bogs with Orange-bell, and lovely they are to see;
and growing among them is a tall heath six feet high, which they
call there bruyere, or Broomheath, because they make brooms of it:
and out of its roots the "briar-root" pipes are made. There are
other heaths about that country, too, whose names I do not know;
so that when you are there, you fancy yourself in the very home of
the heaths: but you are not. They must have come from some land
near where the Azores are now; or how could heaths have got past
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