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/ɡlɛn/ · noun
A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a depression between hills; a dale..
What riches too, of gold and jewels, might not be hidden among those forest-shrouded glens and peaks? And beyond, and beyond again, ever new islands, new continents perhaps, an inexhaustible wealth of yet undiscovered worlds.
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Glen means A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a depression between hills; a dale..
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What riches too, of gold and jewels, might not be hidden among those forest-shrouded glens and peaks? And beyond, and beyond again, ever new islands, new continents perhaps, an inexhaustible wealth of yet undiscovered worlds.
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