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摘要

It makes little difference, in these days of motoring, what part of the Blue Mountains a man chooses to live in when on a visit, for, with a car, or, to a certain extent even with a bus, he can go almost anywhere he likes for a day's outing. A man from Ooty, for example, may play golf with a friend at Kotagiri one day, and the friend may play the return match at Ooty the next. Or they may meet midway at Wellington and play there. Or again, men from Kotagiri now constantly go trout-fishing to Avalanche, 12 miles south-west of Ooty, and Ooty people quite as often come to the Kodanaad View Point, 10 miles north of Kotagiri. When there are dances in the evenings, there is much the same interchange. Life on the Hills now, since the cars have come, is asit were on one big island, instead of in an archipelago, of small ones. We each and all feel we are members of one large group now, and this difference more than anything else impresses one who can remember pre-motoring days.