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VIEWING MOUNTAINS In 1657, mountains were described with epithets such as "Warts, Wens, Blisters, Tumours, Imposthumes"1 yet a century later, in 1769, Thomas Gray wrote of the Scottish highlands: "the mountains are ecsta
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