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| 1 | 39 | The View more quotes about first">first thing I did was check my compass, as if I knew what I was up to, and then proceeded to leave the highway well behind me. |
| 1 | 40 | More quickly than I realized, I was alone and in the woods, climbing. |
| 1 | 41 | Bristol, as you know, is a heavily urbanized area, and I was not well prepared for my first encounter with nature. |
| 1 | 42 | Surely the college, though somewhat rural, was at least one of the outworks of, say, material civilization. |
| 1 | 43 | I was not frightened, being confident that walking steadily in any given direction would be sure to bring me to one highway or another, or some stream or another, and that it would be impossible to become lost, or at least for long. |
| 1 | 44 | Primarily, I was exhilarated, being alone, with myself and the green pines and patches of snow. |
| 1 | 45 | I trudged along for the better part of two hours before I finally yielded to the weight of the pack. |