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station, and we journeyed for a day and night towards the
south. When we arose the next morning at five o’clock
summer was upon us. There was the country-house
surrounded with trees newly clad with foliage. There
was a fragrance from these poplars and birches as
intoxicatingly strong as the perfume of the plants in a
conservatory, and far more fresh. There was no grass, only
moss, but over the moss a never ending carpet of
extremely fragrant lilies of the valley. The dense, fresh,
primeval forest extended along the two rivers Diesna and
Bolva; and the nightingales sang in rich chorus, as I had
never before heard them. This was no accident, for this
is the country of nightingales above all others. It is
said that in the vicinity of Kursk and Orel
(pronounced Aryól) the nightingale is to be found in the
greatest numbers and sings the best of all places on the
earth.
To sum up the characteristics, this is a land where
everything is extravagant and nothing temperate. In
the next place, just as the conditions are extraordinary,
immense, so the uniformity is great, and as the natural
uniformity is great, so is the variety produced by the
seasons great. All is laid out on a large scale, cities and
provincial towns. There is room to spare everywhere,
as in the United States.
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